What Is the Potential for Value-Based Care in Dentistry?
Sep 25, 2024 · Caitlin Walsdorf, a partner at HealthScape Advisors, a Chartis company, recently spoke with Healthcare Innovation about a new survey-based report that explores value-based care (VBC) implementation in dentistry. The survey was a collaboration between HealthScape, the CareQuest Institute of Oral Health and the National Association of Dental Plans.
Bringing PREMs and PROMs Into Value-Based Care
Sep 18, 2024 · She gave a few examples from current alternative payment models. In the Kidney Care Choices, model, for example, the Innovation Center is supporting model participants to use tools to assess patient activation and readiness for self-care management, because this is important for slowing the progression of end-stage renal disease.
Growing Number of Denials Ding Community Health Systems’ …
Oct 25, 2024 · Community Health Systems Inc. has become the latest to take a tumble during the never-ending tussle between payers and providers. Shares of the Tennessee-based, investor-owned healthcare company lost nearly a third of their value on Oct. 24 and 25 after its leaders reported third-quarter earnings dented in the short term by damage from the Southeast’s recent hurricanes but more broadly by ...
Executive Handbook: Ten Transformative Trends 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · Every year, the editors of Healthcare Innovation share with their readers their “Ten Transformative Trends” ensemble of articles, in which they offer the publication’s readers a look into the near future of U.S. healthcare, through a series …
Emory Exec Details Launch of Population Health Collaborative
Nov 18, 2024 · HCI: Is there an AI or predictive component you’re using to try to get ahead of patients before they get to higher acuity? Doddamani: Conventionally in population health, it's been an 80/20 rule — focusing on the 20% of the patients who cost over half of all healthcare costs.What we know is that that's only partially true.
A New Subspecialty? ‘Housepitalists’ Offer Complex Primary Care …
Sep 6, 2024 · HarmonyCares is a Troy, Mich.-based provider of home-based primary care services for complex patients. In a recent interview, Michael Millie, M..D, M.B.A. the company’s chief medical officer, spoke about the company’s shift to a team-based approach in a value-based care environment.
How Atrium Health Scaled Up Hospital at Home
Feb 12, 2024 · Eventually, Atrium had permanently assigned hospital-at-home staff and expanded to non-COVID diagnoses starting in September of 2020. They implemented the CMS acute hospital care at home waiver in their first three facilities in March of 2021 with the expansion to all 10 of their facilities in the greater Charlotte market over the next six months.
Veradigm Directors Seeking Sale or Other Transaction
May 28, 2024 · The directors of Chicago-based Veradigm Inc. said May 28 they are looking to sell, merge or otherwise arrange a transaction for the healthcare data and analytics company—which recently paid $140 million for a large language model venture as part of a push into artificial intelligence tools.
Blue Cross of Idaho’s Predictive Analytics Breakthrough
Oct 14, 2024 · 3,100 providers and 635 clinics now have participated in this pay-for-performance program. • This advanced analytics work has saved Blue Cross Idaho about $6.5 million annually. Orthopedic surgeons are among the groups most likely to use this information.
Sanford Health, Marshfield Clinic Announce Plans to Merge
Jul 11, 2024 · Two Midwestern health systems that have been looking for merger partners for several years have announced plans to consolidate. South Dakota-based Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, plans to merge with Marshfield Clinic Health System, a physician-led integrated health system serving …