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In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the shift towards value-based care is gaining momentum. This paradigm shift, which emphasizes patient outcomes over volume of services, presents a unique opportunity for primary care providers to redefine their role and create a more sustainable and effective healthcare system. The key to success in this new era […]

Deadline Approaching on December 14th: On August 14, CMS published the Request For Application (RFA) for Making Care Primary (MCP), a progressive roadmap to value-based payment for primary care providers with little-to-no VBP experience. The eight states selected for the MCP model are: Colorado, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, upstate New York, Minnesota, […]

On June 8, 2023, CMS announced a new CMMI primary care model, Making Care Primary (MCP), covering traditional Medicare beneficiaries, that aims to strengthen primary care infrastructure through service delivery and care integration enhancements designed to improve an MCP entity’s care management programming, specialty care integration and community supports connections closing social determinant of health […]

This webinar will delve into the transformative impact of data analytics in the context of value-based care, bringing together providers and payers to explore strategies for leveraging disparate data sources and enhancing performance. Speakers will address key topics, including how we can use data to improve health and patient outcomes in relation to value-based care, […]

Understanding Drivers of Performance: Engaging providers at a higher rate and with the right data and insights early on leads to improved clinical, quality and financial outcomes, improved provider and health plan performance, provider and member retention, and overall efficiency.  Nationally, health plans and their contracted provider networks are actively working to improve performance […]

On March 31st U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released the Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Rate Announcement that finalized payment policies for these programs. CMS will phase-in certain updates, and on average, CMS anticipates a payment increase for […]

Incident-to billing is a billing practice in which a non-physician health care provider, such as a nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or clinical nurse specialist, can bill for services provided at the full rate of the supervising physician. In this billing practice, the physician supervises the non-physician provider’s services and is responsible for initiating and managing […]

The speakers at the “Designing for Dignity: Disrupt Workforce” webinar will take juicy, creative, human-centered innovation and make novel solutions succeed out there in the real world. This webinar will help us learn how provider systems and consultants are tackling strategy, analysis, and financial modeling as generative design tools, and help organizations turn their biggest, […]

On February 1st, CMS released the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Part D Advance Notice to inform Medicare Advantage organizations of proposed changes to the program. The changes that were proposed in that notice stretch far beyond just Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs). Providers serving Medicare Advantage members in value-based arrangements will also be impacted and in […]

In late December 2022, CMS published the ACO REACH Health Equity Plan Templates, Guide and FAQ, outlining the standards and requirements REACH ACOs must meet in their efforts to address targeted health disparities in underserved communities in their service area. Health Equity is a hallmark ACO REACH initiative and a significant differentiator between the program […]