Your Weekly Healthcare Digest
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Table of Contents
- Caravan Health Accountable Care Symposium
- Caravan Health in the News
- ACO Renewals
- Quality Reporting, HCC Coding, MIPS
- Lightbeam
- CMS Corner
- Caravan Health Holiday Hours
- Meet our Experts
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Caravan Health Accountable Care Symposium
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Takeaways from Caravan Health’s 2017 Accountable Care Symposium
A note from Lynn Barr, CEO:
The end of the year at Caravan means an opportunity to meet with many of our clients, partners, and all of our employees at the Accountable Care Symposium. This year’s event in Phoenix was our largest yet, with 633 attendees including 120 Caravan employees and 513 doctors, nurses, and health system leaders committed to improving the care their patients receive.
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Second Annual Population Health Pioneer Awards
On Wednesday night, we presented the second annual Population Health Pioneer Awards. The organizational awards were based on quantifiable values. The individual awards spanned ACO, TCPI, and CPC+ and were based on more than 100 nominations that came from all of you.
Read more about the winners here.
Organizational Awards
- Most Annual Wellness Visits: North Mississippi, 63.4%- The first back-to-back winner!
- Highest CCM Rate: Winding River ACO, 14.3%
- Highest TCM Rate: North Mississippi 24.4%
- Lowest PBPM Spend: Suburban Health, $8,513
- Highest Engagement: Illinois Rural ACO, 98.7%
- Greatest Reduction in Readmissions: Mountain West, -29.2%
- Greatest Reduction in ED Utilization: Suburban Health, -10.5%
- ACO of the Year: Magnolia-Evergreen, $10,042,228 in savings
Individual Awards
- Heather Geary: Most Valuable Care Coordinator - ACO
- Melanie Van Winkle: Practice Manager Leader - ACO
- Emily Padula: All Star ACO Champion - ACO
- Dr. Catherine Chua: Outstanding Physician Leadership - ACO
- Amy McDaniel: ACO Board Chair of the Year - ACO
- Dr. Michael Hurt: ACO Medical Director Champion - ACO
- Genevieve Larimar: Most Valuable Care Coordinator - TCPI
- Susan Welter: Practice Manager Leader - TCPI
- Dr. Renee Diamond: Outstanding Physician Leadership - TCPI
- Julie Stahl: Most Valuable Care Coordinator – CPC+
- Trevor Collins: Practice Manager Leader - CPC+
- Dr. Randall Suzuka: Outstanding Physician Leadership - CPC+
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Take Our Survey
We want to hear from you! If you attended the Accountable Care Symposium, please take a moment to complete our survey. Your invaluable feedback will help make next year's event even better.
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Building Advance Care Planning
We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to meet with the WiserCare at the Symposium. As part of an effort to improve our support of advance care planning, we’d like to ask you to take a few minutes to complete the survey at the link below. This will help us support you better.
The survey will be kept open through the holidays. All responses will be kept confidential.
Thank you very much for your support.
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Caravan Health in the News
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Coordinated Care with Doctors and Hospitals Can Improve Health and Save Money
Caravan Health was featured in
USA TODAY as demonstration that hospitals and providers that participate in ACOs can significantly increase savings and improve quality of care. Senior Vice President of Strategy Tim Gronniger shared his insight about the significant progress of ACOs.
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ACO Renewal Webinar
Attention ACO Executives:
If your organization was unable to attend the Executive Track at the Accountable Care Symposium, please join us for the ACO renewal presentation. This webinar will cover everything you need to know to get the renewal process started.
*This presentation is for current ACO Executives only
When: Wednesday, January 3 at 10am PT/12pm CT/1pm ET
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Quality Reporting, HCC Coding & MIPS
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2017 ACO Quality Measure & Reporting Web Series
Attention ACO Champions, ACO Quality Contacts, Care Coordinators & Practice Managers:
Mark your calendars to join us for our monthly 2017 ACO Quality Measure & Reporting Web Series. We’ll continue this monthly series through the end of the year to prepare all communities to report successfully.
When: December 19 at 10am PT/12pm CT/1pm ET
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Now on Swank: November ACO Quality Measure Reporting Webinar
The November 28 webinar covers insights from the field.
To watch, login to your
Swank account and click the course link here:
(Swank course # 54242)
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2017 ACO-CAHPS Patient Satisfaction Surveys Are in the Mail!
Attention ACO Champions, Physician Leaders, CEOs, Practice Managers, Care Coordinators:
The ACO-CAHPS survey has been sent to CMS-selected ACO patients by our CMS-certified vendor, DSS Research! As a reminder, the survey focuses on the interpersonal aspects of patient health care experiences in the
outpatient medical office setting
(not the hospital) and counts for 25% of the ACO’s overall quality score.
Timeline:
- 12/12- 12/13: Second follow up survey sent to those who have not responded or have partially completed
- 1/4-2/1: Telephone follow-ups conducted with non-responders
- 2/6-2/8: Data is submitted to CMS
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HCC Coding Cheat Sheet & Refresher
Attention ACO Champions, Physician Leaders, CEOs, Practice Managers:
We've created a takeaway document to pinpoint the key elements to HCC Coding.
Download here.
If you are also in need of an HCC Coding refresher, we encourage you to login to your
Swank account and watch the following presentation:
*HCC Coding is the second half of the Nurse Advice Hotline presentation (Swank course # 54214)
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MIPS Office Hours
Attention ACO Quality Reporting Champions & ACO Champions:
Does your ACO have questions about the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)? Please join our standing office hours where our Subject Matter Experts will answer all of your MIPS related questions.
When: Every Thursday at 10am PT/12pm CT/1pm ET
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2017 Q3 ACO patient attribution data from CMS is now available within Lightbeam
Learn how to download your Attribution Reports directly from the Lightbeam Reports Module.
Click here to access the step-by-step instructions.
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2018 ACO Provider/Supplier Lists – Missing Physician Assistant Data
Attention CEOs, Physician Leaders, ACO Champions, IT Contacts & Care Coordinators:
CMS has sent notification that the 2018 ACO Provider/Supplier List provided to you on December 1, 2017 does not include physician assistant employment arrangements. Please continue to review and modify all of your other ACO providers and suppliers included on your list and certify your 2018 ACO Provider/Supplier List by the
December 13, 2017 deadline to complete Annual Certification.
In January, they will create a supplemental Provider/Supplier List to include the physician assistant data and deliver the revised file to your ACO. At that time, you will need to review your Provider/Supplier data and again re-certify your 2018 ACO Provider/Supplier List. Please contact your Account Manager for questions.
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Now on Swank: Keys to Successful Reporting Part 2
Slides from the CMS's Keys to Successful Reporting Part 2 are now available on Swank. This webinar covered measures: PREV-5, PREV-6, PREV-7, PREV-8, PREV-9, PREV-10, PREV-12, and PREV-13.
To download, login to your
Swank account and click the course link here:
(Swank course # 54222)
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Caravan Health Offices will be Closed:
December 25 - January 1 - Happy Holidays!
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Estes Park Institute Conference Series
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Lynn Barr, MPH, to Present at Estes Park Institute 2017-2018 Conference Series
Caravan Health CEO and President, Lynn Barr, MPH, has been added as a distinguished guest speaker for the Estes Park Institute 2017-2018 conference series.
As a nationally recognized leader in health care transformation, Ms. Barr will address the most pressing issues in health care and how they specifically impact rural hospitals and critical access hospitals. She has helped hundreds of providers make the transition to value-based payment models and will share her expertise on developing programs that bring better care to patients and lead clinicians to financial success.
The series brings leaders from across the nation together to help them navigate the challenges of health care reform.
Caravan Health clients are eligible for a $100 discount for any of the five conferences by mentioning their affiliation at the time of registration. For more information about the conferences, please visit
www.estespark.org or call 800-727-8225.
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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Topics: Banding Together for Population Health; Lessons Learned in Creating an Accountable Care Organization
Speaker: Lynn Barr, CEO
Speaker: Lynn Barr, CEO
Topic: Lessons Learned from Hospital-based ACOs With Industry-Leading Success
Speaker: Lynn Barr, CEO
Topic: Medicare & Population Health: Hospital Strategies for Financial Success
Speaker: Shannon Calhoun, VP Business Development
Topics: Tips for Hospital Leaders to Inspire Boards of Trustees to Embrace Accountable Care Challenges; Population Health as a Winning Strategy for Rural Community Hospitals
Speakers: Lynn Barr, CEO
Exhibitor: Shannon Calhoun, VP Business Development
Speaker: Dr. Anna Loengard
Speaker: Lynn Barr, CEO
Topics: Population Health and Data Foster Success in 23 MIPS-ACOs; Turning Clinical Data into Effective Action- A Case Study
Speakers: Lynn Barr, CEO; Karin Abraham, VP of IT; Tim Putnam CEO, Margaret Mary Health
Exhibitor
Speaker: Lynn Barr, CEO
Topic: Population Health as a Business Model for Community Hospitals and Clinics.
Speakers: Lynn Barr, CEO
Exhibitor
Speaker: Lynn Barr, CEO
Topic: Panel-Got rural patients? Learn how ACOs can effectively serve patients in rural settings
Speaker: Tim Gronniger, Senior VP Strategy and Development
Topic: Evaluating Risk/Advanced Financial Skills – Panel Presentation
Speaker: Dr. Anna Loengard, Chief Medical Officer
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