HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

on every Medicaid patient visit, according to a new report released by The Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA). Without addressing the reimbursement gap identified by this report, some of Michigan’s most vulnerable populations stand to lose access to important primary, preventive, and integrated care.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

These insights were shared at the keynote discussion, “Leveraging Employer-Provider Partnerships to Curb Rising Health Care Costs and Improve Outcomes” at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC), held June 8?–?10. A growing demand for integrated mental health care. WHCC panelists were Stephen Parodi, M.D.

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Primary Care Integration Quality of Care Accountability 52

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., telemedicine, minute clinics, and other walk-in services), healthcare consumers are more empowered than ever before to find healthcare organizations that meet (or exceed) their expectations—and to help prevent others from making the same mistake. .

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Private Practices Patient Experience Urgent Care Telemedicine 246

Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

These insights were shared at the keynote discussion, “Leveraging Employer-Provider Partnerships to Curb Rising Health Care Costs and Improve Outcomes” at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC), held June 8?–?10. A growing demand for integrated mental health care. WHCC panelists were Stephen Parodi, M.D.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Integration Quality of Care Accountability 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our lives. Visiting your primary care physician? Aaron Kaufman, EVP at Carenet Health. Ordering takeout? There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform.

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Accountable Care Doctors

AUGUST 31, 2021

These discussion forums generated many promising and innovative solutions including improving healthcare by integrating behavioral health with primary care, pursuing strategies for reducing low-value care and increasing high-value care, and developing better metrics for measuring performance in alternative payment models.

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Accountable Care Doctors

AUGUST 31, 2021

These discussion forums generated many promising and innovative solutions including improving healthcare by integrating behavioral health with primary care, pursuing strategies for reducing low-value care and increasing high-value care, and developing better metrics for measuring performance in alternative payment models.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Integration Doctors Accountability 52

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual care and RPM can bridge the gaps for seniors while controlling costs through more proactive, preventive care – but aren’t they too technologically averse to participate? According to the latest stats and surveys , the answer is ‘no.’

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Remote Care Primary Care Regulations Accountability 111

Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Congressional Research Service, which analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) National Health Expenditure Accounts (“NHEA”) on the personal health expenditures for LTSS by payer, in 2021, an estimated $467.4 trillion spent on personal health care. [3] billion was spent on LTSS.

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Medicaid Medicare Accountability Nursing 52

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. Informing integrated communication, decisions, and processes. In other words, the U.S.

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Primary Care Medicare Accountability Hospitals 106

HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Primary care providers and specialists embraced virtual care, thanks to a combination of easy-to-use technologies, temporary regulatory flexibilities, and increased demand from patients. Looking to the future of virtual critical care for emergency situations. About Lisa Lindgren.

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Telemedicine Tertiary Care Primary Care Hospitals 98

HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B Also, Virgin Pulse will provide Headspace offerings to its employees (approx. 2,000 people worldwide.)

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NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

Additionally, the alarming rise in mental health challenges among children and youth underscores the need to integrate prevention and early intervention approaches across our child-serving systems. But the system remains fragmented and strained under the twin crises of mental illness and escalating overdose deaths.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Prevention Urgent Care 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One model for lowering high hospital prices is articulated in a March 2020 proposal from Chernew, Dafny and Pany, a group of economists with expertise in health care financing. The standards include requirements for: a primary care spend obligation, primary care practice transformation, behavioral health care integration, and.

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Hospitals Primary Care Regulations Accountability 113

NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Integration Quality Improvement Accountability 98

Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The five strategic objectives for advancing this systemwide transformation include (1) Drive Accountable Care, (2) Advance Health Equity, (3) Support Innovation, (4) Address Affordability, and (5) Partner to Achieve System Transformation. Strategic Objective 1: Drive Accountable Care.

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Medicaid Medicare Accountable Care Accountability 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

integrating?CHWs CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification , and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. ACO Accountable Care Organizations. CBCM Community Based Care Management Program. CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 121

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Invest in prevention and early intervention. Enhance and streamline system of care for children with complex needs and their families. In addition, through its new 1115 demonstration extension and “Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform,” the state is phasing in a new integrated primary care payment and reimbursement structure.

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Medicaid Urgent Care Primary Care Hospitals 52

American College of Healthcare Sciences

AUGUST 27, 2021

“Even if I haven’t come and visited Portland to meet the people in person, it’s a very integral part of who I am,” she says. My mother is an accountant, but she knew. I integrate everything. It is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent disease. The empty slow allows you to insert a quote of your choice.

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Integration Health Science Primary Care Accountability 93

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual care and RPM can bridge the gaps for seniors while controlling costs through more proactive, preventive care – but aren’t they too technologically averse to participate? According to the latest stats and surveys , the answer is ‘no.’

Remote Care 69

Remote Care Primary Care Regulations Accountability 69

Accountable Care Doctors

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Learnings from COVID-19 must drive major changes in health care delivery, according to interviews conducted with physician leaders of the nation’s leading multi-specialty medical groups and health systems that participate in the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP). Invest in Primary Care and Prevention.

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Accountability Remote Care Primary Care Integration 52

NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Louisiana Louisiana developed a Health Equity Roadmap to integrate health equity throughout the Louisiana Department of Health’s (LDH’s) practices and to address inequities exacerbated by the pandemic. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021. Louisiana Department of Health, 2021. District of Columbia COVID-19 Vaccination Plan.”

Prevention 52

Prevention Integration Hospitals Primary Care 52

Health Care Leader News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The creation of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) is designed to deliver collaborative healthcare services driven by population needs and patient outcomes – a much more formal approach to partnership working underpinned by statutory responsibilities and funding. Care, not commissioning. The clue to the ICB challenge is in the title.

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Integration Accountability Prevention Healthcare 69

Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I’m most bullish on Walgreens with its recent VillageMD and CareCentrix investments , which take the company directly into primary care and care at home. If big primary care providers like Walgreens’ Village MD learn how to manage this opportunity well, Medicare Advantage and commercial risk will follow quickly.

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Healthcare Primary Care Hospitals Health Data 98

Health Care Leader News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The creation of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) is designed to deliver collaborative healthcare services driven by population needs and patient outcomes – a much more formal approach to partnership working underpinned by statutory responsibilities and funding. Care, not commissioning The clue to the ICB challenge is in the title.

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Integration Accountability Prevention Healthcare 59

NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement 63

Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is the final post in my three-part series on the successful implementation of Population Care Managers (PCMs) within Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered Medical Home settings. The primary objective for any ACO or at-risk provider is to deliver value-based care and reduce wasteful spending.

Population Health 40

Population Health Primary Care Accountable Care Doctors 40

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Americans’ estimated $371 billion out-of-pocket spending in 2018 could result in $85 bn in potential consumer savings were people to use pre-tax dollars conserved in financial and health savings accounts (FSAs and HSAs), Alegeus calculated.

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Healthcare Healthcare Finance Primary Care Accountability 47

Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And it’s largely preventable—if not the disease itself (in the case of Type 2 diabetes) then at least the most severe outcomes. The patient is the most important member of their own healthcare team, as diabetes treatment involves a lot of self-care and preventative lifestyle choices.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

Accountability through tracking and monitoring, and. With comfortable shoes on my feet and heart health on my mind, I curated some favorite tools at CES 2020 that populate a lovely portfolio of products to help consumer and clinicians address the many facets of cardiac care — for prevention, chronic management, and stress reduction.

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Doctors Rehabilitation Prevention Accountability 88

NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Idaho reimburses for CHW services through its Medicaid managed care (Primary Care Case Management) program.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies. Stroke accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in the U.S., according to the CDC.

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Doctors Prevention Healthcare Accountability 81

Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

population is over the age of 65, but they account for nearly one-third of healthcare spending, much of which is going into specialty care. These tools can be made more effective by integrating into existing workflows in a way that allows scalability of a provider's time. Roughly 16% of the U.S. These numbers leave the U.S.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

State leaders play a critical role in convening key internal and external partners, implementing engagement and input processes that foster shared ownership and accountability toward goals at the state and community levels. A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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Medicaid Accountability Public Health services Population Health 52

Etactics

AUGUST 19, 2021

This chews up lots of time for physicians and prevents them from seeing more patients. Over 50% of doctors work 50-80 hours per week (Pacific Companies) Most physicians work 51-60 hours per week, but this only accounts for 26% of physicians. Another quarter work 60-80 hours, so a majority work between 50-80 hours. hours per week.

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