Even before the pandemic, health systems were moving tentatively towards data-enabled, value-based health models. Ibo Teuber, partner of Deloitte’s healthcare practice, says the acceleration of transformation will take patients and players to the next stage of the journey. Full Article
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there had been much study and focus on the effect of social issues on the cost of health care and the overall health of the population, including the marked disparities in access to care for many segments of our population. In the last year, these disparities and their effects on our…
Understanding the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare industry is not yet possible, but a few outcomes are evident. Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment rates are surging alongside the unemployment rate.1 In addition, postponed procedures and delayed routine services—as well as pent-up demand for elective procedures—will soon drive increased utilization….
Value-based care has been on the horizon for years. Providers that were ready to leverage digital tools to deliver care remotely experienced success when the payment model finally took hold during the early days of the pandemic. “When we look at the pandemic and how hospitals performed financially, it’s those hospitals that had already started…
As the pandemic eases and state public health emergencies expire, healthcare providers are scrambling to figure out what they can and can’t do with telehealth any more. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis allowed his state’s state of emergency to expire this past weekend after extending it several times, ending a number of emergency measures aimed at…