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“Return” has become a popular word across the globe of late. Return to the office, return to travel, return to going out to eat and sporting events, return to our pre-COVID lives…the list goes on.
As our world adjusts to the new normal, the healthcare industry is moving beyond emergency triage to managing today’s top challenges, including staff shortages, supply chain and cost issues, as well as disruptions in their economic revenue models.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are also dealing with many critical issues post COVID-19, such as consolidation pressures, uncertainty regarding risk-sharing and risk adjustment policy changes at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the impact of long COVID on healthcare utilization by their members.
As our world adjusts to the new normal, the healthcare industry is moving beyond emergency triage to managing today’s top challenges, including staff shortages, supply chain and cost issues, as well as disruptions in their economic revenue models.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are also dealing with many critical issues post COVID-19, such as consolidation pressures, uncertainty regarding risk-sharing and risk adjustment policy changes at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the impact of long COVID on healthcare utilization by their members.
In this piece, I’ll highlight two areas of concern that we are currently addressing with our ACO partners using advanced analytics: assessing the impact of COVID-19 on their managed populations and benchmarking ongoing performance relative to other ACOs.