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Current State of Value-based Care in Oncology: 13 Key Trends to Know

by Fred Pennic 03/22/2019 Leave a Comment

Value-Based Health Care is Antithetic to Patient-Centered Care_ Value-based Care in Oncology

New data on the state of value-based care in oncology has found that while community oncologists are optimistic about the beneficial potential of value-based care, they see a conflict between the need to decrease episode costs and the rising prices of the most innovative novel therapies. In an effort to dig deeper into current attitudes toward new value-based reimbursement models and novel therapies in cancer care, Integra Connect surveyed leaders and decision-makers in oncology practices.
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FHA and Caravan Health Partner to Sponsor Statewide Medicare ACO in Florida

by Jasmine Pennic 03/22/2019 Leave a Comment

FHA and Caravan Health Partner to Sponsor Statewide Medicare ACO in Florida

  Caravan Health and the Florida Hospital Association (FHA) have teamed up to sponsor a statewide accountable care organization (ACO) under which hospitals throughout the state will work together to provide coordinated, high-quality healthcare while delivering lower costs for patients.   Statewide ACO Model to Build Primary Care   Through the statewide ACO, hospitals in Florida can access Caravan Health's proven population health management model to build primary care capacity and
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How Our Texas ACO Saved Medicare $14M with Population Health Approach

by Victoria Farias, Program Administrator at Rio Grande Valley Health Alliance 03/20/2019 Leave a Comment

How Texas ACO Aces the MSSP with Hands-On Population Health Approach

Only about a third of the accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) qualified for bonuses in 2017. Our ACO, the Rio Grande Valley Health Alliance (RGVHA), was one of them. In fact, we’ve generated enough MSSP savings to net bonuses for five years in a row. In 2015, RGVHA saved Medicare $14.2 million, of which our providers received half. In 2016, our ACO’s first year in Track 3 of the MSSP, we received 75% of the $8.5 million we saved. And in 2017,
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Stanford Health Taps Lumeris to Optimize Medicare Advantage Plan

by Jasmine Pennic 03/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Lumeris, Stanford Health Partner to Optimize Medicare Advantage Plan

Stanford Medicare Advantage plan seeks sustainable value-based care growth and continued innovations to serve seniors in collaboration with Lumeris.Lumeris, a provider of value-based care, and Stanford Health Care are partnering on a long-term collaboration for the further development of Stanford Health Care Advantage, a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan in Northern California. Once finalized, Lumeris will help optimize and grow the MA plan throughout the region and support Stanford Health Care's
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The Blueprint to Scaling Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data Collection

by Lindee Chin, MD, Senior Clinical Director of Value-Based Care at Edifecs 03/18/2019 Leave a Comment

In the value-based care world, cost-effective treatment, quality of care, and patient outcomes determine payment. Social determinants of health (SDOH) represent the economic, psychological, educational, environmental and social barriers that limit healthy behaviors, access to care and adherence to treatment resulting in poor health outcomes. Many stakeholders in health care are trying to address social determinants as part of their value-based care strategy. However, many organizations are
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Missouri Health Connection, DrFirst Partner to Offer Clinicians Turnkey Access to Medication History Data

by Jasmine Pennic 03/12/2019 Leave a Comment

Missouri Health Connection, DrFirst Partner to Offer Clinicians Turnkey Access to Medication History Data

DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today that it has successfully implemented an interoperability gateway with Missouri Health Connection (MHC) that will give clinicians easy access to medication data history. MHC is the only secure, statewide HIE in Missouri supporting over 8,000 clinicians, hundreds of clinics and community health centers and more than 75 hospitals, and health plans with access to comprehensive patient
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Allina Health and PatientWisdom Partner to Improve Patient Engagement

by Jasmine Pennic 03/06/2019 Leave a Comment

PatientWisdom

Today, Allina Health announced a new partnership with PatientWisdom, Inc. to improve patient engagement through the use of the digital platform, PatientWisdom. The platform is integrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient portals and allows patients to share personal/health details before their clinical encounter. PatientWisdom then distills the information into an at-a-glance inSIGHT summary which is sent to care teams before the visit to understand what matters to their
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Why Walmart Centers of Excellence Model Could Redefine How Employers Deliver Quality Care

by Larry Leisure, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Chicago Pacific Founders 03/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Why Walmart's Center of Excellence Model Could Redefine How Employers Deliver Quality Care

Mitigating the cost of healthcare expenses has long been an uphill battle for employers, though the problem has become particularly pressing in recent years. The price tags for routine treatments and specialty services alike are on the rise; patients and payers alike shoulder heavy cost burdens for everyday care needs. The benefits packages that may have provided sufficient coverage a decade ago are now stretching to cover costs -- and the companies paying out those benefits are desperately
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eHealth Exchange Integrates FHIR Directory with InterSystems to Power Network Expansion

by Jasmine Pennic 03/04/2019 Leave a Comment

eHealth Exchange, a nationwide health information networks connecting the public and private sectors, announced it will integrate its FHIR Healthcare Directory with InterSystems solutions. The integration will enable the HIE network to enhance its patient-centric services while also completing its implementation of the Carequality Interoperability Framework, which is used by an estimated 600,000 physicians to share data today across and among networks. Integration DetailsThe eHealth Exchange
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Survey: Executives Predict Accelerated Shift to Value-based Payments in 2019

by Jasmine Pennic 02/20/2019 Leave a Comment

Survey: Executives Predict Accelerated Shift to Value-based Payments

According to a recent Lumeris-sponsored survey, forty-six percent of healthcare executives believe their organization’s pace of change toward value-based payment is moving quickly or very quickly, up 14 points from Q2 2018. Additionally, sixty-two percent of health systems indicated that they plan to assume additional risk in the next 12 months. Of these, ACOs (46%), Medicare Advantage (31%), and bundled payments (23%) were common methods for increased risk assumption. The Lumeris-sponsored
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