Serving the Value-Based Care Community
June 17, 2022
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Primary care physicians (PCPs) and other physicians continue to migrate away from the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement model toward value-based and risk-bearing care models that reward better outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. Value-based care (VBC) contracts are projected by McKinsey to cover nearly 65 million Americans, or 22% of insured lives, by 2025, up from 15% in 2021. The trend toward VBC is clear. Yet transitioning from a volume-based transactional billing model to one that incorporates financial risk and rewards tied to the patient’s health outcome is not easy.
Jack Resneck, Jr., MD, a dermatologist from San Rafael, California, was inaugurated here Tuesday as the 177th president of the American Medical Association (AMA). Resneck began his inaugural address by admitting that initially he had had some trepidation about taking the position, given “so much pain and despair in the last 2 years, in the wake of this pandemic and a politically fractured country … Questions about whether we could collectively – all of us in organized medicine – move beyond the serious challenges we face. I wondered if I could make a difference.” But then, he said, he heard a story from his rabbi, Stacy Friedman of Congregation Rodef Sholom in San Rafael (who had given the invocation at the ceremony a few minutes before Resneck began speaking). The story was about...
Now that you’ve made the decision to start your path to Alternative Payment Models (APMs), what’s the first thing you need to consider? Hint: APM revenue calculation does not top the list. Obviously, APM revenue generation vis-à-vis traditional Fee-for-Service is critical. But those calculations assume constancy of two essential “assets”—clinicians and patients. Your competition is working hard to grow these same resources for their own operations. The easiest place to get them from is your organization. If you are following the growth of practice acquisitions from investor-backed health care companies and MSOs, payer practice acquisitions and retail giant investments in primary care, the numbers should stagger you.
Algorithms play a significant role in our daily lives — they unlock our phones, tell us which movies to watch and dictate the content we see on social media. These calculations are also frequently used by healthcare providers to inform diagnosis and treatment plans, so it’s important to remember that algorithms are only as good as the data used to train them.
Much of the data used to train today’s healthcare algorithms reflects the structural racism embedded in the U.S. healthcare system, creating a bias that negatively affects health outcomes among already marginalized populations. That’s why the engineers building healthcare algorithms should move away from using race as a...
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UPCOMING WEBINARS:


SDOH from the Theoretical to the Practical: A Story of Success in Dallas
  • Topic: Challenges and solutions for effectively addressing SDOH in patient populations
June 21, 2022 | 1 PM EST

The 5 Levers of Value-Based Care: Achieving Success Across the Continuum
  • Topic: Enhancing effectiveness of value-based programs, addressing whole person care initiatives, and complying with CMS regulatory requirements
Sponsored by: CarePort
June 23, 2022 | 1 PM EST

Empowering Your Most Challenging Hypertensive Patients: A New Engagement Framework for Value-Based Care Providers
  • Topic: Engaging with patients to help them understand and take control of their chronic health conditions
Sponsored by: Calcium Health
June 28, 2022 | 1 PM EST

Break the Cycle of Rehospitalization by Optimizing Care Transitions Across the Continuum
  • Topic: Using data to improve patient transitions from acute to post acute care
Sponsored by: FLAACOS
June 29, 2022 | 1 PM EST


RECORDED WEBINARS:

Bridging Two Worlds: Utilizing Remote Patient Monitoring to Succeed in Fee for Service and Positioning for Value-based Care
  • Topic: Making the most of chronic care management and remote patient monitoring for both FFS and VBC
Sponsored by: CareSignal

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

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

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

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

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

HLTH 2022
November 13 - 16, 2022 | Las Vegas, NV
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