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3 Strategies to Up-Level Medicare Advantage Enrollment Before it is Too Late

by Trey Keller, VP of Product Management & Aaron Fulner, Sr. Director at Edifecs 04/19/2021 Leave a Comment

3 Strategies to Up-Level Medicare Advantage Enrollment Before it is Too Late

With a new administration looking to reshape healthcare policy and additional special enrollment periods already underway, now is the time to ensure Medicare enrollment systems are ready for the unpredictability, and potential opportunities, ahead. While Medicare is the fastest growing segment of the healthcare industry, it is also highly competitive, expensive to operate in, and riddled with complexities and regulations to navigate. Health plans don’t have room to make a misstep when it comes
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Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 09/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020. M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations.  The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 08/07/2020 Leave a Comment

Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020. While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring.  The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23.  More notably, the Nasdaq has outperformed
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Why Government-Supported Health Plans Must Make Encounter Submissions A Top Priority in 2020

by Abhinav Aggarwal, Sr. Director, Encounter Submission and Risk Adjustment Solutions at Edifecs 01/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Why Government-Supported Health Plans Must Make Encounter Submissions A Top Priority in 2020

Encounter data such as diagnosed clinical conditions and services, or items delivered to healthcare consumers to treat these conditions is the key to success for all healthcare organizations participating within the government space. Whether doctors or hospitals are submitting data for medical services rendered under Medicare Advantage, the Affordable Care Act’s state exchanges or Medicaid, encounter data is used for payment reimbursement and reconciliation between the health plan and the
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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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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Taps Edifecs to Drive FHIR Adoption

by Fred Pennic 09/05/2018 Leave a Comment

FHIR API FHIR App

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), today announced that it has chosen Edifecs as a partner to help drive FHIR adoption across BCBS companies. FHIR is the future of interoperability, and FHIR standards can resolve many of the healthcare industry’s critical business issues. As part of the partnership, Edifecs’ user-friendly Edifecs XEngine Server Module for FHIR will be offered to BCBS companies to support the rapid deployment of these data standards with minimal training required. What
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Edifecs Launches Hosted Encounter Management Model for MAOs and MCOs

by Jasmine Pennic 03/14/2018 Leave a Comment

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Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company, today announced the availability of its Encounter Management solution for small and mid-sized Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs). The Encounter Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) model helps health plans facilitate the encounter data submission process in the transition from Risk Adjustment Payment System (RAPS) to the Encounter Data Process System (EDPS) with no infrastructure
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Tennessee Medicaid Program Taps Edifecs to Align Its Payment Reform Solutions

by HITC Staff 07/27/2017 Leave a Comment

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Tennessee Medicaid Program (TennCare) has selected Edifecs to help align its payment model with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) national payment reform initiatives. TennCare provides healthcare for approximately 1.5 million Tennesseans, covering approximately 20 percent of the state’s population, 50 percent of the state’s births, and 50 percent of the state’s children.Edifecs’ Payment Reform and Value-Based Care solutions bring scalability to TennCare’s initiatives by
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