Value-Based Care

Physicians Practice® spoke with Scott LaRoque, CEO of MPOWERHealth, about why some physicians may be hesitant to adopt value-based care models and how they can overcome these hesitations.

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.

What 2021 might bring for value-based care practices.

Waiting to change could negatively affect business

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.

Four ways advances in EHR technology can help providers achieve mandated MIPS target performance to not only report but also improve patient care.

The treatment needed by many patients need cannot be packaged in a pill form. True treatment of the person involves so much more.

Revenue cycle management tips to enhance cash flow under the 2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule.

How do you post charges, payments, and adjustments in value-based payment models?