RECORDED WEBINAR: Beyond GUIDE: HCC Recapture Made Smarter, Not Harder​: Data-Driven Insights of HCC Opportunities with Minimal Impact to Workflow

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 Download Slides TP-ACO experts, Jay Simmons, MS-ISM, Vice President, Physician Services, Lauren Stuteville, RN, BSN, Transition of Care Coordinator, and HDAI’s Julie Woods, Manager of Customer Success, will share how an interdisciplinary team collaborated to successfully use HDAI’s HCC Recapture tool to address and optimize Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) capture within their ACO population.​…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Beyond GUIDE: How data-driven strategies are paving the path for better dementia care

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 Download Slides This summer, CMS will launch its eight-year Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model where Medicare patients living with dementia and their family caregivers will be able to access comprehensive care and wraparound support services for free. This new payment model supercharges organizations like Remo Health to deliver accessible, affordable, quality dementia &…

Payer, Provider Value-Based Care Contract Targets Equity, Population Health

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Independence Blue Cross (Independence) has announced that it will renew its long-term value-based care contract with Jefferson Health. The provider will participate in Independence’s Total Value of Care value-based care program starting on January 1, 2023. Independence, a payer in southeastern Pennsylvania, has already been in a value-based care partnership with the non-profit health system and teaching…

Health Matters: The Difference Between Hospice and Palliative Care

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Keeping patients calm and comfortable during treatment of a serious illness—that’s the goal of palliative care. “Often patients are fearful when they hear the term palliative care because it’s often associated with hospice. We are trying to dispel some of that fear because quality at any stage of an illness is important,” said Dr. Jonathan…

5 steps to ensure your patients—like my husband—receive the end-of-life care they want

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It was my first bereavement group meeting. One after another, people recounted heart-wrenching tales full of tears, anger, regret and loneliness over the loss of their spouse. Their partners had died in hospitals, with medical personnel trying to work miracles right up to the bitter end. They did not feel good about their spouses’ medical…