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May 13, 2022
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Healthcare Innovation | May 4, 2022
By 2025, accountable care organizations will be required to do quality reporting via electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). Maria Alexander, senior director of population health at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, recently spoke about the pros and cons of reporting via eCQMs during the voluntary transition period between now and then. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the Web Interface reporting option for Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs in 2025.
In recent years, momentum among Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to improve health equity has increased. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ announcement of the redesigned ACO REACH contracting model to improve health equity will only accelerate this momentum. In this blog, we will help ACOs and healthcare payers understand how healthcare analytics can be used to identify health equity challenges and track improvement initiatives’ progress.
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 reducing the total cost of care. There’s good reason for the push behind value-based care; poor care quality care may lead to more emergency department (ED) visits and higher readmission rates, thereby resulting in...
Loneliness and social isolation rose alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns proliferated and in-person gatherings were discouraged.
A critical social determinant of health (SDOH), social isolation is estimated to have increased by 6.7 percentage points during the pandemic. To help combat this and other SDOH issues, providers and payers are turning to data analytics.
Sponsored Webinars
UPCOMING WEBINARS:

How to Successfully Engage ACOs and Affiliate Networks to Unleash Economic Value
  • Topic: following the evolution of fee-for-service arrangements to true global risk contracts
Sponsored by: Stellar Health
June 7, 2022 | 1 PM EST

RECORDED WEBINARS:

5 Key Components for Organizational Growth within Value-based Care
  • Topic: utilizing network and performance monitoring through the ROMEO model to achieve growth
Sponsored by: Trella Health

Fueling Network Growth and Improving Care with Cohort Driven Market Intelligence
  • Topic: leveraging cohort-driven market intelligence to better inform network development
Sponsored by: CareJourney


Check our our Webinar Archive to view past webinars on a variety of value-based care related topics!

Upcoming Conferences
America's Physician Groups (APG) Annual Conference 2022
June 1 - 3, 2022 | San Diego, CA

National Primary Care Transformation Summit
July 26 - 29, 2022 | Virtual

RISE West 2022
Aug. 31 - Sep. 2, 2022 | Los Angeles, CA

Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit
September 20 - 23, 2022

Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs) Annual Conference
October 17 - 19, 2022 | Orlando, FL

HLTH 2022
November 13 - 16, 2022 | Las Vegas, NV
FLASH INTERVIEW:
This week's focus: Using a Unique Data View for Optimal Networks
Each week we showcase one of our solution providers in a 4-5 minute interview and ask them what they bring to the VBC Community and what sets them apart.
Today's guest:
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