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CareMax Acquires Steward Health’s Medicare Value-Based Care Business for $25M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CareMax , a tech-enabled provider of value-based care to seniors announced an agreement to acquire the Medicare value-based care business of Steward Health Care System for a combination of cash and stock. – CareMax will pay $25 million in cash and issue 23.5

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CMMI’s Proposed TEAM Model Offers Another Risk-Based Opportunity For Home Health Providers

Home Health Care

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. TEAM would be yet another model furthering that goal, if enacted.

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Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates

Home Health Care

Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) calculates annual readmission rates, and if those rates are higher than national averages, hospitals are financially penalized.

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

On October 20, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“ CMS ”) Innovation Center (“ Innovation Center ”) published a white paper detailing its vision for the next ten years: a health system that achieves equitable outcomes through high quality, affordable, person-centered care.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

p3care

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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Why Becoming ACO Improves Your Quality Payment Reporting?

p3care

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

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. Driving efficiency and accountability. In other words, the U.S. Crowe LLC estimated that U.S.