RECORDED WEBINAR: Best Value-Based Care Strategies PT 1: Strategically Managing Your VBC Program w/ MA/ACO & Changes in Payment Models

May 6, 2025Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO reporting, ACOs, APP, APP measures, eCQM, vbc, Webinar

 Download Slides Best Value-Based Care Strategies for A Cost-Focused Future Provider strategies for Value-Based Care participation will be significantly different under the new federal administration’s cost cutting agenda. Along with changes in Medicare Advantage’s position in the new CMS vision of Value-Based Care, there are fewer payment models and hints of other changes to come….

RECORDED WEBINAR: Running Into the Federal Health Care Budget Crisis: Can Value-Based Care Save You?

March 18, 2025Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO reporting, ACOs, APP, APP measures, eCQM, vbc, Webinar

 Download Slides Cuts in the federal budget might be like running into a buzz saw for your health care finances. For academic systems, loss of indirect costs of research alone could wipe out 30% or more of the bottom line. Along with that, proposed changes in Medicaid, elimination of medical debt money, and redirection…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Are You Sabotaging Your ACO Viability?

January 28, 2025Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO reporting, ACOs, APP, APP measures, eCQM, vbc, Webinar

 Download Slides Cost control has been one of the central objectives of Value-Based Care. Providers in ACOs and other APMs are participating in a variety of payment models with a cost control objective that is sometimes seen as secondary to other objectives. Under the upcoming politics of less government and less regulation, however, cost…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Are You a Latecomer ACO to APP Reporting? Your Last Minute Options

October 22, 2024Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO reporting, ACOs, APP, APP measures, eCQM, vbc, Webinar

 Download Slides If you aren’t prepared for APP Reporting because you still think that you can duck APP Reporting with a revised Final Rule, don’t put money on it!  You’ve lost a lot of lead time, but you still have options for APP Reporting.  It’s time for weighing last minute options to meet requirements with the most economical and efficient APP…

Shared Savings ACOs get a year off from electronic clinical quality measures

July 26, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsAPP, APP measures, CAHPS, MIPS, MIPS Value Pathways

After their first year of using the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Performance Pathway (APP) reporting method, participants in the Shared Savings program are spared further challenges as CMS delays the full transition to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) and MIPS clinical quality measures (MIPS CQM) and scales back some program requirements. Last year, participants in…

New Rules for Some Medicare ACOs Are No Good, Say Healthcare Groups

May 12, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsAlternative Payment Model Performance Pathway, alternative payment models, APP measures, CMS, Medicare ACOs, MSSPs

Groups representing doctors, hospitals, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) are pushing back on changes to quality reporting rules for Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs that were finalized under the Trump administration. “We have significant concerns about the MSSP quality policies finalized at the very end of 2020,” a group of 11 healthcare organizations, including…

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