HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. million in reimbursements from Medicare over a three-year period. He received $4.5

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Accountable Care Doctors

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Earlier this year, CAPP asked the Institute for Accountable Care (IAC) Executive Director Rob Mechanic to conduct a scan of the latest literature on accountable care entities, programs, and payment models in an effort to understand the factors that influence participation in such arrangements and on cost and quality performance.

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Accountable Care Doctors

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Earlier this year, CAPP asked the Institute for Accountable Care (IAC) Executive Director Rob Mechanic to conduct a scan of the latest literature on accountable care entities, programs, and payment models in an effort to understand the factors that influence participation in such arrangements and on cost and quality performance.

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Accountable Care Accountability Medicare Integration 52

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Caravan Health – which Signify acquired earlier this year – added significantly to its value-based care capabilities. Caravan partners with close to 200 providers participating in accountable care organizations (ACOs). . Value-based care has certainly been a talking point and a trend to watch for years.

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Accountable Care Doctors

MARCH 19, 2021

Kimura’s contributions as we chart a course toward care integration, new payment models, interoperability and transparent quality measures.”. Dr. Kimura is a practicing primary care internist with a specialization in clinical informatics.

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Etactics

JANUARY 26, 2024

It is also a term applied to traditional Medicare. This helps distinguish it from Medicare managed-care plans, as well as any other new payment systems there might be. Send your bills to your payer, which might include private insurance companies or government programs (Medicare or Medicaid). So how does FFS work?

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Joe Kvedar, ATA Board Chair, noted at the conference kick-off , “During the pandemic, for the first time in history, patients experienced the convenience of having the doctor’s office brought into their home, and by all counts they loved it.”

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Progress toward accountable care is halting. "The adoption of hospital-at-home programs across the country has been rapid, with nearly 200 hospitals participating in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Acute Hospital Care at Home program in only a year since its launch," said Majmudar.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 21, 2022

Drew comments: ‘’…the challenges I see are accounts receivable, hiring, getting people through the door and planning on living on Medicare. you have to be a profitable organization assuming that you’re only going to be paid the Medicare rates.’’.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 21, 2022

Drew comments: ‘’…the challenges I see are accounts receivable, hiring, getting people through the door and planning on living on Medicare. you have to be a profitable organization assuming that you’re only going to be paid the Medicare rates.’’.

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Hospitals Accountability Healthcare Finance Healthcare 52

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

After a hospitalization, a palliative care team worked with Matt to address his physical symptoms and side effects from medications, and helped him manage his stress and anxiety. Read the full patient stories on the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) website.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 2, 2022

On February 24, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its redesign of the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC), which now will be called the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model.

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Accountable Care Primary Care Medicare Accountability 52

Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

Milliman points out that this pharmacy number does not include drugs administered in the hospital, outpatient infusion centers, and doctors’ offices. Last year’s rate of growth was 4.6%. Thus, the total pharmacy spend for families is over 20%, the Milliman team calculates. .

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Accountable Care Hospitals Accountability Regulations 91

Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2022

Home health care providers and Medicare-for-all advocates certainly agree on their general disliking of Medicare Advantage (MA). The one problem is that these advocates are also fervently against direct contracting in traditional Medicare. ACO reach is not the same thing as Medicare Advantage.

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