By Rahul Sharma – Healthcare is continuing to accelerate its path to value-based care models where pay-for-value programs are supplanting the traditional volume-based fee-for-service system. However, VBC is not a miracle payment model that can automatically transform a healthcare organization, never mind an entire industry.
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By Devin Partida – The COVID-19 public health and national emergency declarations will end on May 11, 2023. This marks the official end of the health emergency that began in January 2020. While this is good news, it also means some things are going to change regarding vaccine and testing availability.
By Marc P. DiFazio MD – Clinician to Patient communication is critically important to facilitate the best of medical outcomes. Communication starts at the bedside or in the clinic but must continue beyond these venues to ensure safe transitions, medication compliance and to provide feedback and guidance during medical management.
By Yuriy Pylypchuk & Wes Barker – In 2020, as the U.S. health care system faced the unprecedented challenge of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine emerged as an invaluable care delivery tool; both providers and patients heavily relied on it for providing and receiving care.
By Travis Schneider – It’s essential to consider how an economic downturn may impact the healthcare industry. Although the ongoing need for medical care means people view healthcare as stable, and though it may experience the impact later than other industries, it is not immune from…
By Sophia Hurr & Katie Everts – Everybody claims they’re partnering on value-based care (VBC). But our recent conversations with plans and providers revealed that leaders would only consider 20-50% of their contracts to be true partnerships.
By Bronwyn Spira – With its introduction of five new CPT codes for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) in 2022, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made remote care reimbursable, opening the door to broader use and acceptance of at-home care.
By Alena Nikuliak – Healthcare providers can now add remote cardiac monitoring to their repertoire. Recent advances in RCM has offered a new way for providers to manage the health of patients with heart conditions.
By Art Gross – The OCR within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for enforcing compliance with HIPAA. As part of its mandate, the OCR annually releases a report on data breaches in the healthcare industry. The most recent report, which covers the year 2021, was recently released.