Last week we talked about how MACRA legislation is a game changer for how providers will be paid in the future for their Medicare patients. This week we will focus on the value and benefits of using care coordination software solutions to maximize MACRA payments and care delivery productivity. Specific opportunities for using care coordination…
CMS recently announced a 5-year, $157 million program to fund Accountable Health Communities (AHC) under the CMS Innovation Center. The purpose of this new program is to assess whether systematically identifying and addressing health-related social needs can reduce health care costs and utilization among community-dwelling Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. For the first time in…
MACRA is a game changer for providers. It represents the most significant change in healthcare payments since Medicare was introduced 60 years ago. The baseline for calculating MACRA payment adjustments starts January 1, 2017. The purpose of MACRA is to lead healthcare providers from a fee-for-service payment model to a value-based care model…
If you are a primary care practice operating in one of 14 selected CPC+ regions (see list below) you may be eligible for a unique opportunity to earn significant additional revenue from multiple payers (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial) by participating in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program that will start January 1, 2017…
05-11-16 by Richard Taylor, Director of Business Development for eTransX Inc. Recently, the Advanced Health Model workgroup of the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee issued their initial findings and recommendations*. This workgroup, chaired by Paul Tang, MD, the chief innovation and technology officer at Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is charged with finding…
The CMS and Healthcare Transformation Task Force recently announced the rapid acceleration of value-based health care: A group of the nation’s largest healthcare systems and payers, together with purchaser and patient stakeholders, have announced the creation of a new private-sector alliance dedicated to accelerating the shift to value-based business and clinical models in the U.S….