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Anthem Expands Access to Primary Care in Virginia Through Collaboration with Aledade

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia and Aledade , the nation’s largest network of independent primary care, today announced an expansion of their collaboration to provide more Virginians with access to high-quality primary care.

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Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans

Healthcare It News

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients. Many of these patients did not have advance care planning in place.

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CMS Unveils AHEAD Model, Aims To Shift Health Care To ‘Community-Based Settings’

Home Health Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a new state-focused demonstration model Tuesday. One of the model’s primary objectives is to shift health care spending and utilization more toward primary and community-based care.

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Thinking Ahead on the AHEAD Model: Hospital Global Budgets 

NASHP

By the fourth performance year of the model, 30 percent of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) revenue of the state (or subregion of a state tied to the model) must be tied to a Medicare hospital global budget. This means there will be three hospital global budgets: Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial.

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Looking at the AHEAD Model: Key Model Aspects and State Considerations 

NASHP

In early September, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), also known as the CMS Innovation Center, announced a new total cost of care (TCOC) model for states, the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model.

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State Health Care Transformation Initiatives 

NASHP

This project aims to assist states in progressing their unique health system transformation efforts toward the overarching goals of better health access and outcomes and minimized cost growth. Examples include moving toward capitated payments, prioritizing primary care, and focusing on broad population health goals.

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Uber Health to add OTC meds, food delivery to its logistics platform

Healthcare It News

The company says that 3,000 healthcare organizations are already using Uber Health for transportation to primary care appointments and accessing critical prescriptions. Uber Health launched its HIPAA-enabled API and dashboard in 2018 to offer logistics services to population health management programs.

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