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How Data Can Help Healthcare Organizations Grow Their Preferred Provider Network

Hospitals that use a preferred network of post-acute care facilities reduce their readmission rates four times faster than hospitals that don’t. A recent study has found that these providers were able to cut readmission rates from nursing homes by 6.1 percent between 2009 and 2013. Hospitals that did not have a network saw only a […]

CMS’s Proposed New Direction is a Great Opportunity for Healthcare Providers

Voluntary Bundles Are Going to Be One Of Many Valuable Tools With all the rhetoric in Congress about repealing and replacing The Affordable Care Act, it can often get lost in the shuffle that leadership remains committed to value-based care. For example, while mandatory healthcare bundles seem to be dead – healthcare professionals are actively […]

MACRA’s Goal is to Make Lives Better, So Why are Physicians so Worried?

MACRA is coming. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was signed into law on April 16, 2015. It’s a pay-for-performance program that focuses on quality, value, and accountability by rewarding healthcare providers for improving their patient’s overall health. Health and Human Services has stated that its goal is to tie 90 percent of […]

Next Gen ACOs Need to Focus on Post-Acute Care to Succeed

In the initial shift to value-based care, most health systems focused on improving internal processes, in-house spend, and closing care gaps inside their own organizations. This is especially true of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). These organizations largely used internal risk and cost analyses to lower expenses. There was also a learning curve associated with the […]

Health Systems are Succeeding with Bundled Payments – Here’s How

Bundled payments are becoming an increasingly important part of the healthcare landscape – even while The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) considers their future in Medicare. A recent study found that the CMS pilot for the bundled payment program – Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) – is saving millions of dollars without negatively impacting […]

What’s One Way for Healthcare Systems To Improve Patient Outcomes And Lower Costs? Establish a Trusted Post-Acute Network

Healthcare systems can improve patient outcomes while reducing costs and spending variations by developing an effective post-acute care network, according to two recent reports. A report from The Institute of Medicine and a Deloitte survey both indicate that—in order to succeed in value-based care—health systems need to establish a trusted, narrow network of high-quality, post-acute care […]