January 23, 2020

Recent CMS Rulings Simplify Payments for Transitional Care Management

In recent years, the use of care management services to provide better patient outcomes has gained momentum. Contributing to this momentum is a desire to generate greater transparency around patient behaviors in Post-Acute Care settings. This setting was the first focus area for the creation of care management services.

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Topics: Physician Compensation, Patient Care, Managed Care Organization, CMS

March 12, 2015

3 Strategies to Become an ACO

The early experience with ACOs has not been very good. The cost of implementation has been higher than expected, and population health management has been difficult to achieve. Data released last October showed that out of 220 CMS ACOs, only 52 were able to share savings, and 115 ACOs had no cost savings. The CMS ACO spend was reduced by a paltry 1%.

So why were the results so underwhelming? It was harder to reduce costs than expected. Low hanging fruit did not exist. The outcomes could have been better if they had deployed these three important strategies.

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Topics: Managed Care Organization

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