Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS). Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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Q/A: Dr. Masturzo Talks Addressing Food Insecurity with Patients
Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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Walmart & CareSource Partner to Address Racial Health Inequities
What You Should Know: - Today, Walmart announced a three-year agreement with the nonprofit organization, CareSource to address cardiometabolic conditions and maternal health in under-resourced and underserved communities. - The partnership expands the work Walmart and CareSource are doing to help improve care around maternal and child health in Georgia - the two launched a pilot in Georgia earlier this year to help Black maternal health across the state. Address
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Unite Us Advances Black Maternal Health in Miami-Dade
What You Should Know: - Today, Unite Us -- a software company enabling collaboration across sectors to improve the health and well-being of communities -- announced a partnership with Metro Mommy Agency, a full-spectrum doula service provider to improve the quality of maternity care for Black women in Miami-Dade County. - Black women in Miami-Dade face maternal and infant mortality rates 168% higher than white and Hispanic women in the county. Doula care
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AWS, Center for Health Affairs Launches Social Determinants of Health Hub
What You Should Know: - The Center for Health Affairs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it has established the world’s first and only Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Innovation Hub. - The hub’s objective is to start locally and move globally to address structural racism and poverty that result in gun violence, behavioral health crises, and a myriad of other factors negatively impacting the health of local residents. SDOH Challenges According to the U.S. Census Bureau,
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CMS Program Integrity’s Role in Combatting FWA While Maintaining Health Equity
In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Program integrity staff from every state Medicaid program, and federal program staff working on Medicare, must consider the roles of both program integrity and analytics when combatting fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA)in the healthcare system. CMS defines health equity as "the attainment of the highest level of health for all people, where everyone has a fair and just
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Addressing Health Equity: Practical Solutions to Address Variations in Care
What You Should Know: - The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health equity in the United States including principles and actions to ultimately eliminate health disparities. - The joint commitment follows the release late last year of a report developed by HLC and ZS, a global management and technology consulting firm, identifying multiple
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COVID-19 Health Systems Impact: What Will Stop The Cash Hemorrhage?
The material cost of COVID-19 has been at the center of public discourse since the early days of the pandemic. In 2020, growth in federal government spending on healthcare increased 36 percent, compared to the 5.9 percent bump in 2019. While the distribution of vaccines has allowed for a version of pre-pandemic life to resume, hospitals are still not recovered from the high rates of hospitalizations that occurred in March 2020, and the indirect costs of the pandemic continue to loom over the
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CipherHealth Partners With SADA to Enable Better Patient Care w/ Enhanced SDOH Data
What You Should Know: - Today, CipherHealth announced it has engaged SADA, a leading business and technology consultancy and award-winning Google Cloud Partner, to deploy Google Cloud’s Looker to collect socioeconomic data to improve patient care. - CipherHealth previously had platform capabilities that provided healthcare providers with robust conversational and clinical data for each patient. They partnered with SADA, with expertise in deploying and configuring Google Cloud’s
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Why Speech Therapy is an Effective Treatment to Counter the Health Challenge of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)
Over recent years, the virtual speech therapy delivery model has intersected with a host of healthcare disruptions -- value-based care delivery, the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of social determinants of health (SDoH) have reshaped healthcare delivery. There has been a seismic move away from a provider-centric delivery model to a patient-centric model. This innovation has been made much easier with the ever-present catalyst of technology and its increased patient acceptance. Speech
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