ACOs Using Wellness Visits as Scaffolding for Improvement Efforts

April 28, 2022acoCoronavirus, COVID-19, NAACOS, pandemic, value-based contracting

Nathan Moore, M.D., medical director of the BJC Medical Group ACO in St. Louis, sees annual wellness visits (AWVs) as a scaffolding for all of the ACO’s improvement efforts. “We’re using this as our point of entry for advanced care planning and for functional status evaluations,” he said. Moore was speaking during an April 28…

CMS Officials Announce Major New Strategies Around ACOs

April 28, 2022acoCoronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, SDOH, social determinants of health, value-based contracting

This week, a group of senior officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), some from the Center for Medicare, some from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, also called The Innovation Center) authored an op-ed in the Perspectives section of The New England Journal of Medicine online, in which they outline their…

ACOs Using Wellness Visits as Scaffolding for Improvement Efforts

April 28, 2022acoCoronavirus, COVID-19, NAACOS, pandemic, value-based contracting

Nathan Moore, M.D., medical director of the BJC Medical Group ACO in St. Louis, sees annual wellness visits (AWVs) as a scaffolding for all of the ACO’s improvement efforts. “We’re using this as our point of entry for advanced care planning and for functional status evaluations,” he said. Moore was speaking during an April 28…

Value-Based Contracting: At an Inflection Point?

March 15, 2022acoCoronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, value-based contracting

Two years into the global COVID-19 phenomenon, it’s become very clear that patient care organizations in the United States have taken a big financial hit from the pandemic. Not only has caring for COVID-19 patients turned out to be extremely expensive, the pandemic has also scrambled hospital operations in particular, as numerous nurses, physicians, and…

What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care

February 17, 2022acoCoronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, value-based care, vbc

You’ll recall that we ran a long piece (pt 1, pt 2) about Medicare Advantage from former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson earlier this year. Here’s a somewhat related piece from the current head of The Permanente Medical Group about what actually happened there and elsewhere during the pandemic–Matthew Holt The COVID-19 pandemic has provided…

Getting Real About Health Equity

January 20, 2022acoCMS, Coronavirus, COVID-19, health equity, Medicaid, Medicare, pandemic, SDOH

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought social and racial inequity to the forefront of public health. In the United States, the pandemic has affected many communities, including racial and ethnic minorities as well as low-income populations, more severely than other groups. Negative health outcomes are more common among individuals within these groups, and social determinants of…

Waves of Pandemic Incite Soaring Demand for Population Health Technology and Analytics Solutions, Black Book 2022 User Survey

January 7, 2022acoCoronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, Population Health, population health technology

With strengthened provider data sharing employed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and new interoperability standards applied, 95% of all survey respondents in Q1 2022 expect an increase in related data expenses for health systems and integration problems with vendors. Less than 4% of all respondents foresee any governmental incentives for providers that actively participate in the information-blocking rule fixes in the next…

Access To COVID-19 Testing In Low- And Middle-Income Countries Is Still Critical To Achieving Health Equity

October 27, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCoronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, COVID-19 vaccine, health equity, health inequity, pandemic, SDOH, vaccines

The world has witnessed the roll out of multiple effective COVID-19 vaccines. Yet, COVID-19 continues to be an unprecedented challenge, unpinning societies, economies, and health systems. While vaccine campaigns are underway in high-income countries, there is an urgent need to ensure vaccines are prioritized for deployment in low- and middle-income countries. As new, potentially vaccine-resistant variants emerge…

Analysis: How COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Vary Across Different Communities

October 20, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsBiden administration, BioNTech, CMS, community health, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, EUA, FDA, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Medicare, Moderna, Pfizer, Pfizer-BioNTech

The year of 2020 was dominated by the news of how COVID-19 spread around the world, and how life has been changed by the disruption of this pandemic. We have witnessed the journeys of battling the disease, dedication and sacrifices by the front-line heroes, and the emotional roller coaster of wondering when this pandemic would…

Who is Generation C and how will healthcare adapt to meet their expectations?

October 17, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsconsumers, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Generation C, Generation Covid, pandemic, patient access, Patient Engagement, patient experience, patients, payments

While the term “Gen C” was first introduced circa 2012 by futurist Brian Solis as a way of describing a generation of connected consumers defined not by their age, geography, or income but by their hyper-connected, mobile-first mentality, it’s increasingly being used to describe post-pandemic-born babies. It’s also been applied to the mindset and expectations…

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