Serving the Value-Based Care Community
February 3, 2023
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Health systems and hospitals provide extensive resources to improve the health of the communities they serve. Tactics like mobile health clinics, expanded office hours and partnerships that connect patients to social services advance health equity, giving everyone the opportunity to attain their highest level of well-being. But many may be overlooking or under-prioritizing health equity in a critical population: their own employees. As evidenced by the burnout epidemic plaguing front-line healthcare workers, there is significant work to be done to improve their health and well-being.
When I founded my practice, I chose the name Family Health and Wellness. My mission every day was, and still is, to ensure that patients are treated like family, and that their family members are involved in their care. Now twenty-one years later, I am privileged to have treated many of the same patients as they mark milestones in their life, such as marriage, raising their children, retirement, caring for loved ones, and the births of grandchildren. With more than a third of my patients now Medicare or Medicare Advantage enrollees, I also encounter the challenges faced by older patients on a daily basis. On a fundamental level, my experience underscores the significance given to social and economic barriers, or social determinants of health (SDOH), and their direct impact not only on seniors’ physical health, but especially their mental and emotional well-being.
The Commonwealth Fund| February 7, 2023
Value-based care ties the amount health care providers earn for their services to the results they deliver for their patients, such as the quality, equity, and cost of care. Through financial incentives and other methods, value-based care programs aim to hold providers more accountable for improving patient outcomes while also giving them greater flexibility to deliver the right care at the right time. Even though the United States spends much more of its gross domestic product on health care than other countries, it’s not getting the best results. Compared with other high-income countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of infant deaths as well as the highest rate of preventable deaths. And a history of inequality in access to care has meant that people of color and individuals with low income are more likely to experience adverse health outcomes than the rest of the population.
Long-term care residents are historically overlooked and require high-cost, complex healthcare services. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) present an opportunity for providers to earn shared savings while improving care quality for this population. Focusing on boosting ACO participation in the long-term care sector could help CMS achieve its goal of having 100 percent of fee-for-service lives covered by value-based programs by 2030. LTC ACO, the first value-based entity to serve Medicare beneficiaries in long-term care settings, has helped expand access to coordinated care for these residents.
Sponsored Webinars
UPCOMING WEBINARS:

Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Your Community with a
No-Cost Tool
  • Topic: SDOH, health equity initiatives, and creating your own health equity strategy to address unmet needs and reduce avoidable admissions
Sponsored by: CareSignal
February 16, 2023 | 1 PM EST

Optimizing 2024 early renewal, track and participant selection
  • Topic: Helping ACOs make PY2024 decisions for early renewal, track and participant selection, considering the rule changes in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Sponsored by: Validate Health
February 22, 2023 | 1 PM EST

Boost Financial Performance By Improving Patient Outcomes
  • Topic: A case study with Aledade for maximizing savings, reducing timelines, and lowering costs by improving patient outcomes
Sponsored by: Healthjump
February 23, 2023 | 1 PM EST

How Transformative Laboratory Services Closes Gaps in Care
and Reduces Cost
  • Topic: How diagnostic laboratory services drive key healthcare decisions and how to optimize actionable data to help close gaps in care and reduce cost
Sponsored by: BioReference
February 28, 2023 | 1 PM EST


RECORDED WEBINARS:

Closing the Gaps: The REACH Model, Population Health, and the Diabetic Eye Exam
  • Topic: How point-of-care testing for the diabetic eye exam impacts health equity, quality of care, and SDOH
Sponsored by: Topcon Healthcare

ACOs: Leveraging Expected CMS Payments for a Working Capital Loan
  • Topic: Value-based care financing, how expected CMS payments can be leveraged for working capital financing, and a case study demonstrating this program
Sponsored by: Alleon Healthcare Capital

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

Upcoming Conferences
RISE National 2023
March 6-8, 2023 | Colorado Springs, CO

ViVE 2023
March 26-29, 2023 | Nashville, TN

2023 Virtual Fourth National Medicare Advantage Summit
April 11-14, 2023 | Virtual

APG Annual Spring Conference 2023: Going the Distance
May 31-June 2, 2023 | San Diego, CA
Exhibitor Spotlight
With over 2,000 hospitals and 130,000 post-acute and community-based providers, CarePort, powered by WellSky is the most expansive care coordination network that exists today. The end-to-end platform bridges acute and post-acute EHR data, providing visibility into the entire patient journey for providers, physicians, payers and ACOs. With CarePort, healthcare professionals can efficiently and effectively coordinate patient care to better track and manage patients as they move through the continuum. CarePort helps providers meet and comply with the patient event notification Condition of Participation, as part of the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, and the IMPACT Act.
Platinum Level Exhibitors
Thank you to our Platinum Level exhibitors. These organizations offer the absolute highest quality products & services to the ACO & IPA community. To learn more & visit their interactive booths, click on the logos below:
Gold Level Exhibitors
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