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  Complimentary from the publishers of VBP News                                   December 2018  
       
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  "Advancing Health IT is inextricably bound up with what may be the most important priority that HHS has today, which is transforming our healthcare system into one that pays for value. Nowhere is that truer than with interoperability. It is actually impossible to move to a future health system, one that we need, one that pays for value rather than sickness, without a truly interoperable health IT system."
- HHS Deputy Secretary Eric D. Hargan at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) annual meeting.

 
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  In a six-month pilot that integrated family medicine providers, a university-based medication management telepharmacist and an interprofessional care coordinator using telehealth solutions for CCM and pharmacy education services, "the telepharmacist completed 200 interventions – an average of 2.89 per patient -- for safety (49%), vaccines (24.5%), care gaps per national consensus guidelines (13.5%), adherence (10%) and cost savings (3%)."

Excerpted from: VBP News, Volume 3 Issue 24, December Second Edition 2018, Journal Scan: ‘Integrating Innovative Telehealth Solutions into an Interprofessional Team-Delivered Chronic Care Management Pilot Program.’
 
 
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How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare New Medicare physician payment regulation

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently reformed the way Medicare pays for the most commonly used physician services. In a keynote presentation, CMS Administrator Seema Verma gives her perspective on the Medicare program, its movement toward value-based payment, and the prospects for future reforms.

 
 
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Jake Zientz: 4 Key Steps to Prepare Your Practice for Value-Based Care

1. ALIGN - know which patients drive costs
2. CREATE - create your care model
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Source: SWC Technology Partners, December 11, 2018
     
 
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