HealthEC offers a KLAS-recognized, end-to-end population health management platform designed to help ACOs succeed with value-based care. Our HealthEC CareConnect® generates personalized, clinically-proven plans that enable teams, including community-based resources, to deliver patient-centric care. Advisory services are also available to guide our ACO partners in defining their strategic goals as they transition from volume…
In this webinar, Trella’s presenters will cover the main takeaways from recently conducted market research with ACO leaders, including: Top priorities for ACOs The increasing importance of post-acute care partnerships Tools needed to effectively build and manage a top-performing network Speakers: Rebecca Molesworth– VP, Product Management, Trella Health Kirsten Reed– Product Marketing Director, Trella Health…
Roji Health Intelligence and Proficient Health, in conjunction with ACO Exhibit Hall, are presenting the top 10 ways to increase specialist engagement in your ACO. We will dive into what specialist engagement is, why it is important and what your organization can do to increase engagement. Our speakers: Ms. Terry Hush – CEO of…
If CMS aims to lower healthcare costs and improve quality, then the agency should use more population-based alternative payment models, like accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to a new analysis. The analysis of the evaluations for more than a dozen CMS value-based initiatives over the past eight years showed that no other alternative payment model came…
As we reported last week, with the change of administrations that will be coming in January, the leaders of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), which represents hundreds of accountable care organizations nationwide, on Thursday, Nov. 12, published an outline of what they consider to be successful ACO models, and NAACOS’s president and…
A team of health policy researchers is arguing that, in order to optimize the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), policy leaders need to think in more complex, nuanced ways about the framework and goals of the program for accountable care organizations (ACOs). Writing in the Health Affairs Blog, Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., and Alice Chen, Ph.D….
Over the last decade, as health care solutions have become more specialized and fragmented, primary care physicians (PCPs) have frequently been cut out of the loop, particularly in coding initiatives. Retrospective and in-home risk assessment solutions work around PCPs. This dynamic further complicates PCPs’ ability to thrive in value-based care, which hinges on primary care…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of life in the US and challenged the capacity of the health care system like no other event in modern times. While policy makers struggle with how to deploy and rebuild the public health infrastructure and the biomedical and pharma industries race to a vaccine and therapeutic cures,…
With the change of administrations that will be coming in January, the leaders of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), which represents hundreds of accountable care organizations nationwide, on Thursday, Nov. 12, published an outline of what they consider to be successful ACO models, and NAACOS’s president and CEO has published an analysis…
In a recent post, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) generated $2.6 billion in gross savings in 2019 and $1.2 billion in net savings after accounting for shared-savings payments to participating accountable care organizations (ACOs). Achieving this level of savings would constitute remarkable…
