RECORDED WEBINAR: CJR-X finalized: How are hospitals positioned for mandatory LEJR episodes of care?

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 Download Slides In the Fiscal Year 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule, CMS finalized a national, mandatory expansion of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model, to be called CJR Expanded (CJR-X). CJR-X will hold all eligible acute care hospitals accountable for 90-day episodes of care following lower extremity joint replacement procedures….

RECORDED WEBINAR: Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: The Role of Telemedicine and Technology

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 Download Slides Diabetic foot ulcers remain a leading driver of hospitalization, amputation, and cost in patients with diabetes—yet up to 75% are preventable with the right tools and strategies. This presentation will trace the evolution of DFU prevention from early temperature-guided avoidance therapy to today’s remote temperature monitoring and AI-enabled care, grounded in clinical…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Stop Boiling the Ocean: Delivering Small Wins That Drive Big Value in VBC

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 Download Slides In value-based care, success relies on more than high-level strategy and individuals committed to VBC activities. It requires the ability to turn fragmented signals stemming from information, such as a patient’s medical, behavioral and social risk, care utilization and transitions, quality, and network performance into focused and aligned operational actions that can…

RECORDED WEBINAR: A Dementia Playbook for RAF Accuracy, Avoidable Cost Reduction & Stars Lift

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 Download Slides Dementia is the one cohort inside your total population that quietly damages all three economic levers: RAF recapture, avoidable medical cost, and triple-weighted Part D performance. This session lays out a caregiver-activated playbook to defend RAF under V28, reduce avoidable utilization, and turn dementia from a liability into a Stars asset. Visit…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Will you succeed in CJR-X and TEAM? How to Build a CMS-Aligned View of Your Bundled Payments

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 Download Slides With Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded (CJR-X) set to launch January 2028, every eligible acute care hospital in the country is facing a new reality: mandatory bundled payments across a full 90-day episode window for joint replacement procedures. This is part of a broader and accelerating shift — CMS already made…

RECORDED WEBINAR: From Reporting to Results: Harnessing the Power of Your Quality Reporting Data

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 Download Slides Quality reporting is a requirement for participants in ACOs, MIPS and other Alternate Payment Models. However, despite its value, quality reporting is often seen as a compliance exercise, rather than an opportunity to measure and improve quality. This short-term approach costs organizations (literally) when actionable insights go unrecognized, resulting in high-cost utilization…

RECORDED WEBINAR: From a $5,000 Error to a $500 Million Mistake: Accurately Assessing a Patient Acuity

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 Download Slides Clinical accuracy is the foundation of value-based care, but recent, high-profile enforcement actions have shown how much is at stake when the focus turns from delivering great care to optimizing coding. How can physician groups, ACOs and health systems capture true patient acuity without crossing into upcoding? Join Connective Health for a…

RECORDED WEBINAR: The Future Operating Model for Value-Based Care – Why the Next Generation ACO Needs an AI Operating Layer

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 Download Slides Our last two webinars focused on accountable automation and a real-world Palm Beach ACO use case. In this session, we’d like to take the discussion one level higher and focus on the broader operating model ACOs will need as AI becomes more integrated into value-based care. The session would explore how ACOs…

RECORDED WEBINAR: ACCESS Before 2028: The Two Years That Don’t Count Against Your Benchmark

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 Download Slides As CMS moves toward outcome-based payment for chronic care at national scale, the next two model years give ACOs a period to build their own outcomes and utilization data before those expenditures affect benchmark calculations.   CMS’s ACCESS Model went live in July 2026, bringing outcome-aligned payment for technology-supported chronic care into…

Shared data, better care, shared savings: The ACO opportunity for long-term care facilities

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The pressures on long-term care facilities are coming from all directions. Demand? Aging Baby Boomers and an increase in complex medical conditions are driving the need for more beds and care. Workforce? Long-term care (LTC) facilities have been dealing with staffing shortages since before COVID-19, but the situation has not fully recovered from the pandemic….