Value-based care creating a new era of interoperability

May 19, 2022acoInteroperability, value-based care, vbc

Interoperability in healthcare, it would seem, is at an important inflection point. Rules around data exchange have been around for years, and regulate what patient information gets shared between payers, providers and the patients themselves. There are also standards around how that information is shared, and the forms it can take. But the transition to…

Technology’s critical role in successful value-based care

May 3, 2022acotechnology, value-based care, vbc

Championed by government entities like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health & Human Services, value-based care is here to stay. Hospitals are increasingly participating in value-based programs—such as the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Bundled Payments for Care Improvement—in an effort to improve care delivery and patient outcomes while…

Fact Checking the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model

April 15, 2022acoNo CommentsHCTTF, Health Care Transformation Task Force, value-based care, value-based payment, vbc

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) recently announced the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model. The REACH Model will replace the Direct Contracting model starting on 1/1/23. ACO REACH retains the DC Model Global and Professional tracks and adds new requirements to advance equity, promote provider governance, and protect beneficiaries….

Everybody’s Talking About Value-Based Health Care. Here’s What They’re Not Saying.

April 12, 2022acoHospitals, Specialists, value-based care, vbc

Attend any healthcare conference and you’ll quickly discover that it’s become downright fashionable for healthcare leaders to talk about their unwavering commitment to “value-based care.” The expression has become ubiquitous in healthcare circles. Its virtuousness goes unchallenged. But should that be the case? Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg (with whom I worked as a…

FLASH INTERVIEW — CareSignal — March 2022

March 3, 2022acoNo CommentsACO, ACOs, data integration, health data, health tech, health technology, healthcare data, Interoperability, normalization, remote monitoring, remote patient monitoring, RPM, Telehealth, transactional data, transactional health data, value-based care, vbc

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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…

What’s Ahead in 2022

February 10, 2022acodigital health, healthcare, Telehealth, value-based care, vbc

As 2022 unfolds, it is becoming increasingly clear that health care is at a crossroads. Do we keep reacting to crisis after crisis, potentially undermining our ability to provide consistent patient care over time? Or do we start rethinking traditional care delivery models, so they become nimbler and more attuned to our patients’ needs—the clinical…

Seven Key Strategies For Health Systems And ACOs To Attract And Engage Consumers

February 9, 2022acoACOs, health systems, patient communication, Patient Engagement, value-based care, vbc

Despite incredible work by health care workers during the pandemic, consumer and patient trust and belief in the health care system is dangerously low. Why is this a big problem now? Because as pressure to implement Value-Based Care initiatives is intensifying and creating more financial pressure on your already-slim margins, your health system or ACO…

Implementing value-based care to drive success for life sciences companies

January 31, 2022acoLife Sciences, Risk, value-based care, vbc

In an attempt to curb rising costs, the U.S. medical system is moving away from traditional fee-for-service healthcare. Traditional fee-for-service and volume-based healthcare models pay providers for the amount of healthcare services they provide, not the quality of that care. Value-based care is the new model: a system in which providers are paid for performance and patient…

Most health systems still base doctors’ pay on volume, despite push toward value-based care: study

January 28, 2022acoalternative payment models, APMs, fee-for-service, FFS, value-based care, value-based payment, vbc

Despite the growth in value-based payment arrangements from payers, health systems continue to pay physicians based on the volume of services they provide. A new study published in the journal JAMA Health Forum finds that volume-based compensation was the most common type of base pay for more than 80% of primary care physicians and for more…

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