CMS has released the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program (QPP) Final Rule, and the message of these 2,414 pages is clear: CMS wants to push providers into value-based care arrangements. That intent was foreshadowed by the Proposed Rule released over the summer, which confirmed our predictions of trends under the Biden administration. Specifically, we saw a push…
The Guidehouse Center for Health Insights has just released analysis of an executive survey in conjunction with HFMA, the 2021 Risk-Based Healthcare Market Trends, that found health systems appear to be going big into risk sharing in 2022, with these percentages of respondents planning to advance into upside/downside risk sharing, professional capitation or global capitation for:…
More than half of consumers are unfamiliar with value-based care, and for the ones who are aware of it, only a quarter can define the healthcare model correctly, a new study from nonprofit health plan EmblemHealth revealed. The payer surveyed 970 consumers online between August 12 and August 22, 2021, and found that there is a…
Download Slides Salient Healthcare will discuss the importance of Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Principal Care Management (PCM) initiatives. In this webinar you’ll learn: – How properly utilizing CCM and PCM services can benefit patients, providers, and value-based organizations – How to implement improvements in your CCM/PCM workflow – How to quickly analyze your…
Organizations that do strong vendor relationships, invest in the organization, and are willing to take on commercial risk will be poised to take on downside risk financial contracts. Through working with population health management vendors, KLAS released a recent report identifying which of their customers are most advanced in adopting downside risk contracts. In the…
Value-based care, the care delivery and reimbursement reform movement that emphasizes outcomes over volume of services rendered, could not be successful without strong and meaningful patient engagement. Defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as programs that “reward health care providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with…
Several medical groups say a new round of cuts to Medicare payments set to go into effect in 2022 will derail their move to value-based care and impact hiring of new staff. Medical groups spoke about the need for Congress to avert a series of cuts during a briefing on Tuesday sponsored by the American…
A leader from PACE program Summit Eldercare believes there should be at least half the number of nursing homes in the country, in order to adequately provide value-based care. Instead, prospective SNF residents would be better served in community housing options. This is coupled with a trend Summit Eldercare is seeing among the SNFs it…
COVID-19 offers a “unique opportunity” to build healthcare systems that are both agile enough to deal with future crises and strong enough to overcome existing challenges. That’s according to a new policy paper from the European Alliance for Value in Health. Health Systems after COVID-19: Building Resilience Through a Value-Based Approach argues that instead of…
EmblemHealth, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health insurers, released its findings today in a national survey of what Value-Based Care means to patients and consumers. The national study found that only one in four consumers are aware of the term “Value-Based Care,” and of those, only a quarter can define it accurately. These results…