Serving the Value-Based Care Community
February 25, 2022
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The Biden administration is redesigning the controversial Direct Contracting model to add new requirements to tackle health equity and ease progressive lawmakers’ concerns over the role of private equity. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that the professional and global Direct Contracting model will transition in 2023 to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (REACH) Model. In addition, the geographic Direct Contracting model on pause since March 2021 will be eliminated immediately.
The Health Care Blog | February 17, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. The urgency for this transformation was clear from the pandemic’s earliest days, as shelter-in-place orders caused patient visits to brick-and-mortar facilities to plummet. That decline dealt a financial blow to many fee-for-service health care providers, who are paid per patient visit, treatment or test performed — regardless of the patient’s health outcome.
Despite incredible work by health care workers during the pandemic, consumer and patient trust and belief in the health care system is dangerously low. Why is this a big problem now? Because as pressure to implement Value-Based Care initiatives is intensifying and creating more financial pressure on your already-slim margins, your health system or ACO must depend on patient-consumers to shore up your enterprise and revenues. Without building better consumer relationships, healthier consumers will seek alternatives and leave you with less revenues and sicker patients.
In order to ensure accountable care organization (ACO) and patient experience success, providers must collaborate across the continuum of care, suggested a recent study out of the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. “We found that if an ACO wants to be successful, it needs representation across all parts of a patient’s continuum of care,” Aravind Chandrasekaran, the study’s leader, said in the press release. “But that’s a large challenge. It’s easy when you look at a group of physicians or hospitals...
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