The recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Independence at Home (IAH) Demonstration results showed that the project has consistently saved CMS millions of dollars since launching in 2012. IAH was designed to test the effectiveness of employing comprehensive home-based primary care services and sought to reward providers who deliver quality care while reducing costs.

In 2020, year seven of the demonstration, approximately 5,000 beneficiaries were cared for by 10 practices. These participating practices saw a change in savings of about $459 per beneficiary per month. The estimated reduction in Medicare spending exceeded incentive payments to IAH practices by $4.2 million.

HCCI will host a new virtual workshop series, Demystifying Value-Based Care: Best Practices for Today and Tomorrow, in April. Designed for experienced HBPC providers and practice staff, the series will equip participants to succeed in value-based payment arrangements in the three workshops below, all of which run 12:30 to 4:45 p.m. CT: Learners can opt to register for all three workshops and save 10% (discount available through Tuesday, April 11), or register for the individual workshops. Each workshop is designated for 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. (Registration includes complimentary access to the workshop recording, presentation slides, and supplemental resources.)

• April 13: Getting Started in Value-Based Care
• April 20: Managing Costs of Care in Value-Based Care
• April 27: Ensuring Success in Value-Based Care

Value-based payment arrangements are increasingly common in the care of homebound, medically complex patients, and the prevalence of payer contracts recognizing the value of HBPC has been a game changer. The Contracting with Payers: Demonstrating the Value of Home-Based Primary Care on-demand course will help you demonstrate the value of HBPC when negotiating with payers to obtain necessary funding to be more supportive of your patients’ needs and to maintain financial sustainability for your practice. This online course runs 30 minutes and is designated for 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Review our comprehensive archive of on-demand online courses here.

March 22, 2023, 4pm – 5pm CT

Shifting away from fee-for-service toward value-based care means taking on risk as well as hiring staff, investing in technology and analytics, and launching new programs. This kind of change can feel overwhelming. In Value-Based Care: An Opening to Reimagine How We Deliver Care, learn how value-based care models can be a catalyst for you to practice medicine the way many may have envisioned it in medical school or training.

In this free webinar, Dr. Chris Dodd, Chief Medical Officer at Emcara Health, will discuss his own journey with value-based care, developing team-based models, and the pursuit of the "Quadruple Aim" for himself and the teams who provide home-based primary care to Emcara Health’s patients throughout the U.S.

If you missed our 2023 Here We Come! Billing & Coding Impacts You Need to Know webinar earlier this month, a recording of it is now available online for free. View the webinar, one of the highest-attended HCCIntelligence™ webinars to date, to learn about coding, reimbursement, and policy impacts as a result of the CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (MPFS) and how to best respond to these changes. A review of case auditing examples is also included.  For more on-demand webinar topics, visit our HCCIntelligence™ webinar archive.

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In March, Age-Friendly Health Systems, an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), will start its next Action Community, a seven-month virtual learning opportunity on adopting the 4Ms (i.e., what matters, medication, mentation, and mobility) with a network of teams from across different health systems. It is designed as an “on-ramp” for hospital-based teams (e.g., emergency departments, intensive care units, general wards, medical-surgical units), ambulatory care teams (e.g., primary care, specialty care), nursing home teams (e.g., post-acute and long-term care), and convenient care clinic teams to test and adopt age-friendly care. Join the movement here.

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