Value-Based Care

How AI can be used to activate patients to make important wellness appointments, such as cancer screenings.

The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care is no cakewalk.

Six strategies for profitability with new payment models.

Incentivizing doctors based on patient outcomes rather than volume alleviates many causes of burnout.

A CEO's insights on growth in the retail medical market.

Although value-based payment models offer several advantages compared with fee-for-service models, practices are sometimes reluctant to try them due to concerns about the additional documentation and workflow changes they require.

Panelists highlight care options unavailable under fee-for-service model.

Adopting these habits can make your practice's transition to value-based care easier.

A transparent, data-driven approach can ease the transition from traditional fee-for-service to value-based contracts.

How do we guide the next generation of clinicians to prioritize value over volume?

Our experience shows how key features of value-based care can position practices to be more resilient, adaptable, and future-oriented.

How reinforcing care coordination can create value and improve patient outcomes.

Plus, what needs to happen in order to establish value-based care models.

Waiting to change could negatively affect business

Scott LaRoque, CEO of MPOWER Health, discusses why some physician practices are hesitant to adopt value-based care models and how practices can get started with them.

The time for PCPs to focus on improving documentation, coding, and value-based care initiatives is now.

Top 5 takeaways and predictions for healthcare

Four new exceptions and four new safe harbors proposed.

Physician practices are facing an uphill battle in their quest to remain independent

CMS’ emphasis on preventive care and the need for better chronic care management raises the need for a care coordinator to ensure medication management and monitor for potential contraindications. The ideal coordinator? Clinical pharmacists.

You owe it to all your patients re-examine your exam room to see how you can provide a high level of care for everyone, including those with mobility limitations.

Substandard care can lead to reduced payments for hospitals with excess readmissions.

Community health information exchanges appear to offer many advantages, including increased revenue for physician practices.

A look at the interconnectedness of reputation management, patient engagement and value-based care.

Is your Patient and Family Advisory Council a checked box or a meaningful vehicle for collaboration with patients and families?

Health coaching might be the middleman the American healthcare system needs to make reform a reality.

One independent practice has improved patient outcomes, employee efficiency, and practice revenue by implementing a chronic care management program.

As providers, it’s our job to identify and anticipate what patients need. But, in order to deliver the right care at the right time, we need to re-examine our processes and relationships not only with our patients, but also with one another.

Community health information sharing platforms are cropping up to give healthcare providers a more holistic view of their patients’ needs and challenges as well as capture interactions with other social service agencies. That, in turn, is helping to improve patients’ care and their quality of life.

With the silver tsunami fast approaching, it’s critical that physicians develop workflows to keep abreast of seniors’ health amid anticipated life changes and transitions of care.