Download Slides The economic and clinical burden of cardiac arrhythmias in the U.S. is immense. Irregular heart rhythms like AFib are becoming alarmingly common, and are expected to grow in the coming years. Those with AFib are at 3x greater risk of developing heart failure, and 5x greater risk of stroke. These not only…
Health insurers, self-insured employers, and government plans wield significant power in the U.S. healthcare landscape. Their decisions on reimbursement, technology adoption choices, and how they communicate with members reverberate across the healthcare ecosystem. In order to gain more members and simply maintain their business, they will need to take on more risk and make themselves…
The end of each calendar year brings with it an atmosphere of heightened scrutiny for risk-bearing health care organizations. These organizations are in a race against time to close risk and quality gaps to maximize their performance and reimbursements in value-based care (VBC). The upcoming Healthcare Quality Week is a timely reminder for organizations to…
Over the past few years, there’s been a notable surge in investment dollars directed towards companies specializing in value-based care. Investment in companies that enable value-based care increased more than 400% between 2019 and 2021, according to a McKinsey analysis. This investment trend has only continued in 2022 and 2023. On Sunday, a value-based care…
Payers and employers often have a blind spot when it comes to addressing inequities in behavioral health. Still, ignoring mental health care inequities can increase overall health care costs. An analysis from Deloitte suggested that inequities have led to $320 billion in annual health care spending – “signaling an unsustainable crisis for the industry.” That…
The opening day of the HLTH 2023 event offered a blockbuster announcement from General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja. Dr. Marc Harrison, the former CEO of Intermountain Healthcare who joined General Catalyst last year, will lead a new initiative called the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATco), with the goal of acquiring and leading its own for-profit…
With 145 hospitals and more than 2,200 care sites in 24 states, CommonSpirit Health serves patients with a wide variety of needs, from big cities to remote rural communities. Now, CommonSpirit says a common platform is going to accelerate the move to value-based care. CommonSpirit recently announced the launch of its Population Health Services Organization,…
The leaders of the Bethesda, Md.-based Aledade announced on Sept. 20 the results of its network of independent primary care practices in the 2022 year of their participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), following the announcement on Aug. 24 of nationwide performance in the program by officials at the Centers for Medicare &…
The CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is launching a new Alternative Payment Model (APM) focused on Dementia Care: The GUIDE model. It will launch in July 2024 and run for eight years. More details will be forthcoming in the request for applications (RFAs) to be published this fall, which will open the…
Over the past decade, health care providers and insurance plans have increasingly pursued value-based care models that are designed to improve patient and clinician experiences while reducing costs and improving quality to produce better population health. With more community and consumer engagement, these models have huge potential for advancing key consumer priorities, including affordability, effective…