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  Third Quarter 2021 Value Based Care Financial Results Podcast
This MCOL podcast features a discussion by Doug Sherlock, Senior Health Care Analyst and President, Sherlock Company (www.sherlockco.com), featuring his insights into the quarterly financial performance of value based care organizations for the third quarter 2021.

 
 
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  "We are squarely focused on bringing the highest value solutions to our customers, which includes optimizing how they connect to and receive quality care, in a convenient way that meets their lifestyles. For many of our customers, virtual care continues to be the best way to meet their needs in a cost-effective manner."
- Shawna Dodds, Vice President of Product Development, Cigna
 

 
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  Researchers found that volume-based compensation was the most-common type of base pay for more than 80% of primary care physicians and for more than 90% of physician specialists. While financial incentives for quality and cost performance were commonly used by health systems, the percentage of total physician compensation based on quality and cost was modest—9% for primary care providers and 5% for specialists. The findings are published by the journal JAMA Health Forum.

Source: Value Based Payment News, Volume 7 Issue 3, February First Edition 2021, "Rand Study Finds Most Health Systems Still Base Payments on Volume."

 
 
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Changes in Age-Adjusted Hospitalization Rates for 12 Conditions, 2007 to 2016

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Diabetes long-term complications: 12.5% relative decrease
2. Uncontrolled diabetes: 37.0% relative decrease
3. Hypertension: 20.3% relative decrease
4. Heart failure: 22.7% relative decrease
5. Asthma in younger adults: 28.7% relative decrease
6. Pneumonia: 38.6% relative decrease
7. Perforated appendix: 21.8% relative decrease
8. Diabetes short-term complications: 46.9% relative increase
9. Lower-extremity amputations: 15.1% relative increase
10. Asthma and COPD in older adults: nonsignificant decrease
11. UTI: nonsignificant decrease
12. Dehydration: nonsignificant increase

Notes: From an article entitled, "Trends in quality of primary care in the United States, 2007–2016," by Anshul Saxena, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Muni Rubens, Peter McGranaghan, Emir Veledar and Khurram Nasir. This retrospective trend analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) data collected during the period 2007–2016 assessed the quality of primary care using sets of preventable hospitalization conditions defined as Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs). PQI hospitalization decreased from 154,565 to 151,168 per million hospitalizations during the study period, a relative decrease of 2.2%.

Source: Scientific Reports, February 7, 2022
     
 
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This webinar is intended to assist state Medicaid agencies, commercial insurers, health plans, and pediatric and adult practices to expand their value-based efforts around pediatric-to-adult health care transition. It does so by 1) discussing a step-by-step approach to designing value-based payment (VBP) innovations for pediatric-to-adult transitional care, and 2) hearing from senior officials in two large Medicaid MCOs.

 
 
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Insights
  10 most common sentinel events of 2021: Joint Commission
Becker's Hospital Review, February 22, 2022
 
     
  How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care
American Association for Physician Leadership, February 18, 2022
 
     
  Patient attitudes about telehealth care quality jump 15% in 1 year, study shows
Becker's Hospital Review, February 17, 2022
 
     
  The Perils & Payoffs of Alternative Payment Models for Community Health Centers
Premier blog, February 17, 2022
 
     
  Harnessing Payment to Advance Health Equity: How Medicaid Can Incorporate LAN
Center for Health Care Strategies, February 16, 2022
 
     
  Implementing Pharmacy Performance Measures for Value-Based Care
Pharmacy Times, February 10, 2022
 
     
  Ten tips on maximizing value-based payment
MDLinx, February 7, 2022
 
     
  Why Value-Based Care Requires Value-Based Administration
HIT Consultant, February 3, 2022
 
     
  Anthem relies on flexible partner-not-build strategy in shift to value
Healthcare Dive, February 2, 2022
 
     
  Most doctors are compensated for volume, not value of care, research finds
Healthcare Dive, January 28, 2022
 
     
What's News
 
Association of Hospital Interoperable Data Sharing With APM Participation
JAMA Health Forum, February 18, 2022
 
Alternative Payment Models Can Stabilize and Improve Practice Radiation
Evidence-Based Oncology, February 14, 2022
 
Signify Health to Acquire Caravan Health, Accelerating the Movement to VB Care
BusinessWire, February 10, 2022
 
Arcadia Wins Best in KLAS Award for VBC Managed Services for 4th Year
PR Newswire, February 8, 2022
 
Premier Inc. Receives 2022 Best in KLAS Award for Value-Based Care Consulting
Premier Inc. Press Release, February 8, 2022
 
Trends in quality of primary care in the United States, 2007–2016
Scientific Reports, February 7, 2022
 
Health Care Leaders’ Perspectives on the Maryland All-Payer Model
JAMA Health Forum, February 4, 2022
 
Value-Based Care Through Postacute Home Health Under CMS PACT Regulations
The American Journal of Managed Care, February 4, 2022
 
Physician Compensation Arrangements & Financial Performance Incentives in US
JAMA Health Forum, January 28, 2022
 
 
This Month in VBP News
 
 

In this month's first issue:

  • Rand Study Finds Most Health Systems Still Base Payments on Volume
  • Value-Based Care Snapshot and Outlook
  • CMS 2023 MA and Part D Advance Notice Includes Value Based Care Star Ratings Measure
  • Black Book Value-Based Care Consultant Ratings
  • Industry News: Curation Health Announces Strategic Partnership with Echo Health Venture; P3 Expands to California, Acquires Medcore HP and Omni IPA Medical Group; Jasper Health Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding; Vynca Secures $30 Million in Funding to Expand Integrated Palliative Care Platform

In this month's second issue:

  • New Report Shows Just 14.3% of Hospitals Complying with Hospital Price Transparency Rule
  • Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars by Jordan Rau 
  • New Research Examines Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Contribution to Value-Based Care Models
  • AHRQ Grantee Profile: Assessing the Impact of Value-Based Purchasing Programs
  • Industry News: Fresenius Medical Care North America Partners with 1,000+ Nephrology Providers for New Kidney Care Payment Models; Strive Health Becomes Largest Non-Dialysis Company to Participate in Innovative New Payment Model; ConcertoCare Raises $105 Million to Expand Value-Based, At-Home Care Model to More Seniors with Unmet Health and Social Needs

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