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What healthcare system leaders say about the value-based care journey
Healthcare Finance Management Association, June 16, 2022
   
  MedPAC Lays Out Plan to Streamline Medicare Alternative Payment Models
Home Health Care News, June 15, 2022
   
  Advancing Health Equity Through Federal Payment and Delivery System Reforms
The Commonwealth Fund blog, June 15, 2022
   
  Five guiding principles to help organizations transition to value-based care
Becker's Hospital Review, June 13, 2022
   
  Humana bringing onehome's value-based model to Virginia
FierceHealthcare, June 9, 2022
   
  Leapfrog raises concerns about CMS proposal to suppress patient safety data
Healthcare Dive, June 6, 2022
   
  How physicians can untangle the web of relationships essential for VBC success
Medical Economics, June 3, 2022
   
  DOJ joins suit accusing Fresenius of performing 1000s of unnecessary procedures
FierceHealthcare, June 3, 2022
   
  CareMax to acquire Steward Health's value-based care businesss
Becker's Hospital Review, June 1, 2022
   
  A quick call can lower emergency department readmission, according to study
Becker's Hospital Review, May 26, 2022
 
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Mike Ipekdjian: 5 ways hospitals can use technology to succeed under value-based care

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Improve emergency department (ED) diversion
2. Reduce hospital admissions
3. Identify the appropriate next site of care post-hospital discharge
4. Optimize skilled nursing facility length of stay
5. Mitigate avoidable hospital readmissions37

Notes: From an article entitled, "What Hospital Success Looks Like Under Value-Based Care," by Mike Ipekdjian, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, SANE, PHRN, NREMT.

Source: HIT Consultant, June 22, 2022.
     
 
Healthshare TV
 
How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare Practice Hack: Using Team-based Strategies to Improve Risk Adjustment

In this video, family physician Jennifer Bacani McKenney, MD, FAAFP shares the top ways her care team help ensure patients have optimized risk adjustment factor scores. You’ll also learn why risk adjustment is fundamental to value-based payment and how the hierarchical conditional category coding impacts your payment.

 
 
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What's News
 
Reforming Physician Payments to Achieve Greater Equity & Value in Health Care
Annals of Internal Medicine, June 21, 2022
 
Financial Incentives Tied to Medicare Star Ratings: Impact on Flu Vaccinations
The American Journal of Managed Care, June 14, 2022
 
Most Doctors Still Believe in Prescribing Unnecessary Antibiotics
University of Maryland School of Medicine, May 31, 2022
 
Assoc. of Inappropriate Pediatric Antibiotic Rx With Adverse Drug Events
JAMA Network Open, May 26, 2022
 
 
HealthExecWeek: Managed Care
 

HealthExecWeek: Managed Care provides a weekly wealth of business intelligence and insights covering the spectrum of subjects filling the arena of managed care. Because doing business in the world of managed care today isn’t siloed, neither is our coverage. You will be able to stay a step ahead in a healthcare business environment where all subject matter lines seem to blue and cross over to the next.

 
       
     
 
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