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Building a Trusted Post-Acute Network Improves Patient Outcomes and Lowers Costs

Two recent reports have determined that building an effective post-acute care network will help healthcare systems improve patient outcomes while reducing costs and spending variations. Analysis 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 partners. Not […]

Can CMS’s New Advanced Payment Bundles Save Healthcare?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched its newest bundled payment model, the voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced, and they are doing something unique in the healthcare industry – pleasing both clinicians and management. “Volunteer bundles are a very attractive proposition for providers and health systems to generate outside […]

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 […]