eMedApps is a healthcare technology company that provides solutions and integration services to ACOs and other healthcare organizations. With our Community Health Cloud solution we provide a community-based patient record for patients, a consolidated view of patient records for physicians, and a combined medical history that can be coordinated and shared across practices with…
Innovista Health Solutions is a management organization that exists to help providers succeed in value-based care by developing strong relationships, delivering innovative solutions and driving exceptional performance. Innovista enables physicians to engage, support, and manage both value-based savings and shared-risk models across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial programs. Innovista’s strong dedication to improving patient outcomes…
Accountable care organizations (ACO) emerge each year aiming to improve care quality while controlling rising health care costs. This cross-sectional study examined whether ACO arrangements within a Preferred Provider Organization and a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) effected patient experience. A modified Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ACO survey was used to assess care…
Clinical pharmacists are in an ideal position to manage multiple aspects of patient care within value-based care models. In 2015, Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy founded the Accountable Care Organization Research Network, Services, and Education (ACORN SEED), a team of pharmacy practice faculty dedicated to using innovative approaches to patient care while providing unique…
Year after year, surveys show the same thing: Healthcare providers’ evolution toward accepting risk to keep patients healthy—widely viewed as the holy grail of lowering healthcare costs—has been painfully slow. So long as that’s the case, experts say the financial returns providers can expect to draw from population health management, where they gather patient data…
For ACOs and Direct Contracting Medical Groups adopting value-based payment models, behavioral health is often overlooked. But your patients’ unmet behavioral health issues are a big cost driver for emergency care and inpatient admissions, and they compound risk factors in disease. They also influence your patients’ adherence to treatment plans. You may believe this is…
When primary care physician Dr. Karen Smith noticed that opioid abuse rates were skyrocketing in her community of Raeford, North Carolina, she decided to do something about it: She partnered with a behavioral health agency to roll out a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program within the four walls of her practice. Here’s how it worked: Smith…
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health care systems around the world, and the U.S. is no exception. Observers cite a wide range of issues — from underfunded public health departments to inequitable access to care, to high levels of underlying chronic conditions that worsen outcomes — that need to be addressed to create…
Dozens of Oregon healthcare companies have committed to boosting their value-based payment models as the state looks to reduce healthcare expenses. Forty healthcare organizations, including some of state’s largest health systems and insurers, signed a voluntary compact Thursday that aims to tie 70% of their payments to capitation and other alternative payment models by 2024….
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, at its meeting on Thursday, approved several Medicare policy recommendations that will appear in its June report to Congress. The congressional advisory panel will recommend that CMS simplify its approach to alternative payment models. Commissioners approved an updated version of the recommendation presented by MedPAC’s staff at last month’s meeting….