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Patient Engagement Is Once Again Top Of Mind. What’s Different This Time?

February 16, 2023Garrett SchmittACO participation, digital patient experience, digital SDOH, MSSP, MSSP ENHANCED, Patient Engagement, Telehealth

As 2023 dawns, strategic conversations in health care are shifting away from the pandemic’s “crisis mode” to refocus on addressing long-term needs and opportunities to improve patient outcomes. Patient engagement is an area that is consistently discussed as ripe for evolution. In an ideal world, every health care provider would be focused on patient engagement…

To Sustain The Value Movement, Make Next Generation ACOs A Permanent Option

April 9, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCMS Innovation Center, COVID-19, full risk, Medicare, MSSP ENHANCED, Next Generation ACOs, Pathways to Success, Performance, value based

The goal of the value movement is to incentivize providers to move away from the traditional fee-for-service model and provide coordinated care for patients with an eye toward improving quality and reducing cost. One key mechanism to achieve this goal is accountable care organization (ACO) models that—because they are offered along a continuum of varying…