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| May 28, 2025 | PocketRN and Cornerstone Caregiving Announce a National Strategic Partnership to Test Medicare Dementia Care Model | Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a CMMI Program, Aims to Increase Care Coordination, Support for Caregivers WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, May 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, PocketRN, a leader in virtual nursing... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | PocketRN and Homewatch CareGivers® Announce National Strategic Partnership to Test Medicare Dementia Care Model | Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a CMS Innovation Program, Aims to Increase Care Coordination, Support for Caregivers WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, April 1, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, PocketRN, a leader in virt... |
| Jan 16, 2025 | PocketRN and Assisting Hands® Home Care Announce a National Strategic Partnership to Test Medicare Dementia Care Model | PocketRN Nursing Visit
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a CMMI Program, Aims to Increase Care Coordination, Support for Caregivers
Together, we aim to enhance caregiver support and improve quality of life by offering c... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Right at Home and PocketRN Enter Strategic Partnership to Provide New Medicare Care Model for Seniors with Dementia | PocketRN Nursing Visit
Right at Home and PocketRN today announced a strategic partnership to provide support to Medicare dementia beneficiaries.
This brand-new payment model will enable more seniors to experience the benefit of Right at Hom... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | PocketRN & Nevvon Announce National Strategic Partnership to Transform Dementia Care through CMS’ Innovative GUIDE Model | PocketRN Nursing visit
Aims to Improve Care Coordination, Empower Caregivers, and Enhance Patient Outcomes
Our partnership with Nevvon strengthens our ability to deliver equitable, innovative, and scalable solutions ensuring that no one—car... |
| Sep 10, 2024 | The Imperative to Stay the Course on Value-Based Transformation | Courtney Fortner, President and Chief Executive Officer at Navvis
Is value-based care still the right strategy to reduce U.S. healthcare costs? Or is it time to move to what comes next in the generation-long battle to constrain total medica... |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Remo Health Selected by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Test Medicare Dementia Care Model | Comprehensive dementia care delivered virtually
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model Aims to Increase Care Coordination, Support for Caregivers
Patients and caregivers everywhere deserve better dementia care – the type of c... |
| Jun 18, 2024 | American College of Lifestyle Medicine Announces Dan Buettner as Opening Keynote, Blue Zones as Presenting Community Health Sponsor of 2024 Lifestyle Medicine Conference | Lifestyle Medicine 2024
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced longevity researcher, Blue Zones Founder, National Geographic Fellow and best-selling author Dan Buettner as opening keynote for its 2024 Lifestyle Me... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Taking Action: Become a Health Equity Leader | In a 1955 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most “shocking and inhumane.” Yet racial and ethnic health inequities remain pervasive across all state health system... |
| Jan 25, 2024 | Novel Approaches Are Essential for Enabling Patient-First Outcomes in Value Based Care Models | American healthcare is highly inefficient. Across a variety of long-term health and treatment outcomes and patient safety metrics, the U.S. has lower performance compared with countries of similar economic status, despite spending more mone... |
| Sep 6, 2023 | Two Value-Based Care Initiatives That Could Shift the Alternative Payment Model Landscape | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced two initiatives set to launch in July 2024 that could help move the needle away from fee-for-service payments. One focuses on supporting family caregivers of dementia patients to ... |
| Aug 18, 2023 | New Drugs And The Opportunity For Integrated Care In The Healthcare Industry | Stephen West is the President of Shields Health Solutions, a premier specialty pharmacy accelerator in the U.S. |
| Aug 17, 2023 | The 30 young leaders who are forging a new future for the healthcare industry in 2023 | Your browser does not support the video element. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A new generation of leaders is transforming the healthcare industry.
They're developing ne... |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Medicare pilot aims to coordinate dementia care | The Biden administration on Monday rolled out a new Medicare pilot program aimed at improving the quality of life for people with dementia and reducing the burden on unpaid caregivers.
Driving the news: The new payment model from Medicare's... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Biden promised a ‘war on cancer’ — but declared war on the cure instead | When then-Vice President Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot in 2016, there was reason to be optimistic. Decades of rigorous science had transformed many cancers from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease. New treatment advances —... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | CMS change could slow the crucial growth of ‘food as medicine’ | Sometimes, an apple a day really is just what the doctor ordered.
And for the past several years, organizations like About Fresh, the Boston-based nonprofit where I work, have been developing tools to make such produce prescriptions possibl... |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Betting On Value: How Pearl Health Is Helping Primary Care Lead The Value-Based Care Charge | Despite spending close to twice as much per person on healthcare, the U.S. achieves worse health outcomes. |
| Jun 11, 2023 | CMS Tests New Primary Care Model in 8 States | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that it formed a new primary care model, which aims to improve the quality of primary care for patients and advance value-based arrangements.
The model, called the Maki... |
| Jun 9, 2023 | CMS announces new decade-long primary care payment experiment | The Biden administration on Thursday announced a 10-year experiment aimed at improving the way Medicare and Medicaid pay for primary care.
Why it matters: The effort, dubbed the Making Care Primary Model, will ease safety-net and independen... |
| Jun 9, 2023 | Syntax Health Launches Solution To Streamline Value-based Care Contracts | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to have all Medicare beneficiaries in a value-based arrangement by 2030. But achieving that will be a difficult undertaking, with just 12% of providers ready to take on value-based contrac... |
| Jun 9, 2023 | The Value-Based Care Imperative—And How Technology Makes VBC Possible | David B. Snow, Jr. | Chairman & CEO | Cedar Gate Technologies. |
| May 22, 2023 | Medicare is prohibited from paying for weight-loss drugs. These are the 3 potential ways to change that. | Halfpoint Images/Getty Images
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Medicare is barred by law from paying for drugs for weight loss such as Ozempic and Wegovy.
Expanding coverage could be costly, but it could also help Medicare save money over time.
There are three r... |
| Mar 4, 2023 | Value-Based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit | Rahul Sharma, CEO at HSBloxLynn Carroll, COO at HSBlox
Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement mode... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | A Road Map For Action On Health Care Spending And Value: Part III – Spending Growth Targets | This is the third in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s newly released report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece details one of the four priority areas within the report, which provides re... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Health Equity and the Push to Value-Based Care | Social, economic, and geographic disadvantages create significant disparities in healthcare, such as lower quality of care and lesser health outcomes. To help improve these issues, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rede... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | The Importance Of Creating Value-Based Equitable Care | Vice president of digital and analytics at EXL Health and an advisor to healthcare technology and business executives for 20 years. |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Address ‘Plane-Crash Level’ Patient Harm, HHS Tells Hospitals, As Political Currents Swirl | Government leaders, saying they're determined to reduce medical error, have launched an Action ... [+] Alliance to Advance Patient Safety.getty |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Replace the failure of Medicare Advantage with ‘Medicare Part F’ | Medicare Advantage began life as a brilliant idea: a public-private partnership to keep older people healthier and reduce costs.
At the time in 1992, both President George H.W. Bush and his challenger, Bill Clinton, supported it. An editori... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Millions of Americans have health insurance that isn’t ‘good enough’ | The open enrollment season for health insurance is gearing up at a time when more people in the United States have health insurance than ever before. Yet millions of Americans who enroll this fall still won’t be able to easily afford the he... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Medicare’s Value-Based Insurance Design Pilot Could Pave Way For Broader Implementation | Value-based insurance design is an evidence-based method of healthcare cost containment.getty |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Spatially Health Launches Digital Health 90-Day Equity Equalizer Pilot | "SDOH is a comorbidity that raises costs significantly and leads to poor health outcomes. Without a data-driven approach, risk-based organizations are guaranteed to lose money while not actually improving the quality of health outcomes... |
| Sep 12, 2022 | Why do people turn down social risk assistance offered by their doctors’ offices? | After decades of research documenting the profound effects of social factors on health, such as income, education, employment, food security, and neighborhood, the health care sector has finally begun grappling with these so-called social d... |
| Sep 11, 2022 | The ‘Cancer Moonshot’ is within reach: How patient-centered interventions can transform cancer care | In his 2022 State of the Union Address, President Biden declared: “Let’s end cancer as we know it.” It’s a sentiment he is sure to return to in a speech on Monday. No doubt this is a bold ambition and a worthy goal for a disease that is cur... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Surgeons fold against Medicare’s stacked deck | Casinos dazzle you with flashing lights, high-stakes tables, and the chance to win millions of dollars. The house always wins, but casinos still trick people into thinking they will make money. Substitute Medicare for casinos and you can se... |
| Aug 10, 2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Ron Forthofer: Medicare is being threatened with privatization | By Ron Forthofer
Medicare has been a highly successful, popular and treasured government program that provides health care for seniors, for those with disabilities and for those with end-stage renal disease. The Traditional Medicare (TM) ap... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out | The value-based payment crusade is now two decades old. But despite the tens of billions of dollars — perhaps hundreds of billions — spent on these programs, they have done little to improve Americans’ health or lower health care costs. It ... |
| Jul 18, 2022 | Lightbeam Health Creates Solution Suite for Seamless Transition to CMS ACO REACH Model | Lightbeam Health Creates Solution Suite for Seamless Transition to CMS ACO REACH Model July 18, 2022 / Nueterra Capital Marketing
Nueterra Capital portfolio company Lightbeam Health Solutions announced it is launching a new solutions suite ... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Empower primary care with adequate payments and technology | Nina, the mother of an autistic teenager, had never experienced a panic attack until Covid-19 closed her son’s school in March 2020. Then they began coming with alarming regularity. Single parenting a disoriented child she couldn’t leave un... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Community Oncology Alliance Statement on the Enhanced Oncology Model | Community Oncology Alliance Logo
Statement on the new Enhanced Oncology Model (EOM) from Ted Okon, Executive Director, COA
Community oncology practices are fully committed to positive, patient-centered improvement of cancer care and look fo... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Biden Administration Announces New Model to Improve Cancer Care for Medicare Patients | Enhancing Oncology Model Aims to Improve Patient-Centered Care, Lower Health Care Costs, and Address Health Equity as Part of President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot
Today, the Biden Administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human... |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Making Medicare, Medicaid innovation tests voluntary undermines evaluation opportunities | The U.S. health care system is often inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable. Compared to other high-income countries, the U.S. pays more for health care and has worse outcomes. One potentially fruitful avenue for controlling costs and im... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | How to fix the two-tier U.S. health payment system | How the U.S. pays for health care is neither efficient nor fair.
Despite spending an astounding 20% of its economic output on health care, the U.S. ranks poorly among high-income countries in national health system performance. To make matt... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Why Value-Based Care Requires Value-Based Administration | Rahul Sharma, Chief Executive Officer at HSBlox Lynn Carroll, Chief Operations Officer at HSBlox
Value-based care (VBC) is finally gaining steam among healthcare organizations as executives look to implement processes that boost patient out... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | agilon health : What Exactly Is Value-Based Care? | Value-based care. It sounds like an industry buzzword, but behind it is the key to changing healthcare in the US, enabling better outcomes and less spend. And when it comes to primary care physician practices, the transformation to value-ba... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Why value-based administration is key to value-based care | After years of uneven adoption, value-based care (VBC) is gaining momentum as providers and payers seek to improve patient outcomes while gaining control of runaway healthcare spending in the U.S. An overwhelming 94% of health system execut... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Using Machine Learning in the Evolving Landscape of Real-World Data | Zeynep Icten, Ph.D., Director of Data Science Solutions at Panalgo
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the term real-world data (RWD) refers to routinely collected data relating to patient health status and the delivery of ... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Health Equity, Labor Shortages, Care in the Home, and Value-Based Care: Jvion Shares Predictions for How AI Will Continue to Shape Healthcare in 2022 | 2022 will be the year of bold action to address social determinants of health, and clinical AI will play a starring role in both understanding how these barriers drive disparities and directing the right resources to the right patients and ... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Everything and nothing has changed: Why VC innovation and funding in digital health need to target Medicaid populations | Venture capital dollars are pouring into digital health companies. Every week, the news cycle is filled with new funding rounds for a diverse portfolio of new healthcare services and technologies. The pandemic has accelerated innovation, fr... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | New CMS incentives look to close equity gap in home dialysis, kidney transplants | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is looking to increase at-home dialysis and kidney transplant rates for low-income patients through new incentives.
On Friday, the agency finalized payment rates for next year under the end-sta... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | CMS lowers MA premiums amid insurer plans to grow offerings | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is lowering the average premium for Medicare Advantage plans just as several insurers have announced plans to launch new MA options.
The average premium for MA plans will drop to $19 per mont... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | Should we do away with ACOs? The answer depends on who you ask | Though accountable care organizations have been around for more than a decade, their effectiveness at reducing healthcare costs remains a highly debated issue, prompting impassioned condemnations and defenses from experts in the industry. A... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Algorithmic bias is pervasive in health care. It needn’t be | The World Health Organization issued its first global report on artificial intelligence in late June, highlighting concerns of algorithmic bias in health care applications of AI. It accompanies a growing number of news stories exposing AI’s... |
| Aug 9, 2021 | CMS proposes revoking ‘Most Favored Nation’ drug pricing model | The Biden administration is proposing rescinding a Trump-era model that ties Medicare Part B drugs and biologicals to the lowest price that drug manufacturers receive in other wealthy countries.
Known as the Most Favored Nation Model, the i... |
| Jun 25, 2021 | At a crossroads: Hospital execs staring down some of their toughest decisions yet | Prior to the pandemic, hospitals were marching toward solutions that paid homage to the heads-and-beds model, with its tight margins. They were investing in specialists to bring elective surgeries in-house. They were becoming more efficient... |
| May 24, 2021 | CMS’ Next Generation ACO Model to end this year | The Next Generation ACO Model is ending Dec. 31, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services said last week. Accountable care organizations — which are comprised of healthcare stakeholders working together to provide coordinated, high-qua... |
| May 17, 2021 | In analyst call, Clover reveals it doesn’t have the customers it said it did during IPO | After telling investors that it would more than quadruple its membership base in a year, insurance startup Clover Health is cutting its projections in half.
The insurance startup now plans to end the year with between 70,000 and 100,000 cov... |
| May 3, 2021 | How a startup beat health care heavyweights to win Medicare’s AI contest | A $1 million government contest to predict health problems with artificial intelligence attracted the heavyweights of industry and beyond — from Mayo Clinic, to IBM, to the data and consulting powerhouse Deloitte.
But the winner of Medicare... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Chamath Palihapitiya-backed Clover Health surges 36% after adding former Trump official to its board of directors | Demetrios Kouzoukas, a former Trump official at the heath-care agency CMS, is now on CLOV's board.
Clover Health's business model is reliant on the CMS' new direct-contracting program.
The company's stock surged as much as 36% on Friday aft... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Those $200 Medicare drug discount cards from Trump administration won’t happen | The cards would have gone to about 39 million Medicare beneficiaries.
The plan was criticized for its $7.9 billion price tag, as well as its questionable legality. |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Trump’s ‘most favored nations’ experiment undermines care for millions covered by Medicare | President Trump and other administration officials have talked a big game about their new most favored nation model for lowering prices for Medicare Part B drugs, including cancer therapies and other potentially lifesaving treatments admini... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | ClosedLoop.ai raises $11 million for off-the-shelf AI solutions tailored for health care scenarios | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
ClosedLoop.ai (formerly Deep Health Technologies)... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | ClosedLoop.ai raises $11 million for off-the-shelf AI solutions tailored for health care scenarios | ClosedLoop.ai (formerly Deep Health Technologies), a health care data science startup specializing in AI and automation, today raised $11 million in series A funding led by Greycroft and .406 Ventures with participation from Silicon Valley ... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | CMS Names ClosedLoop.ai a finalist in $1.6 million AI Health Challenge | AUSTIN, TX—October 29, 2020—ClosedLoop.ai, Healthcare’s Data Science Platform, has been selected as a top 7 finalist in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge. The $1.6 ... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | 3 ways to counter Covid-19’s threat to community-based cancer care | Americans take great cancer care for granted. We pride ourselves on access to the best specialists and the most innovative medicines. And this January we learned of the largest ever single-year drop in the rate of cancer deaths across the c... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | A “bald-faced lie” on LinkedIn followed by revisionist history of CMMI at HLTH panel | A screenshot of the virtual CMMI panel on Wednesday at the HLTH conference.Top left: Annie Lamont, managing partner, Oak HC/FT; Top Right: Brad Smith, current director, CMMI; Bottom Left: Patrick Conway; Bottom Right: Adam Boehler, both for... |
| Aug 14, 2020 | What would post-Covid value-based care look like? | In only a matter of months, the global pandemic known as Covid-19 has had many victims. The people we have lost to its destructive power are the most visible, but beyond that are the ravages it has played across our economy, our livelihoods... |
| May 26, 2020 | Insurers will limit insulin costs to $35 copay for Medicare Part D plans next year | Most Medicare patients choose to enroll in Part D coverage, either through a standalone prescription drug plan or through a Medicare Advantage plan. Roughly 75% of Medicare enrollees had Part D coverage last year, according to CMS.
Medicare... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Mobile integrated health programs with paramedics should be on the front line of the Covid-19 fight | Long before the first case of a mystery respiratory disease was identified in China and eventually became a global pandemic, and long before U.S. hospitals began developing surge capacity plans to meet the present public health crisis, the ... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Value-Based Care’s Story Will Turn in the 2020s | Daniel Kus, VP of Pharmacy Services at Henry Ford Health System Troy Polan, acting CEO of ExceleraRx Corp
Value-based care initiatives matured in recent years thanks to exciting new technology and influential policy changes. But the coming ... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | With the pandemic sidelining routine care, a trade group urges the government to pay for digital therapeutics | A prominent trade group is calling on the federal government to cover digital health tools for people with public health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced widespread delays in routine care.
These tools, some of whi... |
| Jul 11, 2019 | Drug companies have a 'target on their back and very few friends to protect them' after a shift from the Trump administration. 3 could be especially at risk. | Hollis Johnson/Business Insider
The Trump administration just reversed a policy intended to bring down drug costs for patients.
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The Trump administration has backed off a key part of its plan to bring down US drug prices.
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| Jul 10, 2019 | President Trump aims to upend existing kidney care models through executive order | “Decades of paying for sickness and procedures in kidney care, rather than paying for health and outcomes, has produced less-than-satisfactory outcomes at tremendous cost,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.
Medicare’s current pay... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | What are the latest results from Medicare’s Oncology Care Model? | In late-February, the CMS Innovation Center released Performance Period 3 (PP3) results, which measured the performance period with episodes starting July 2, 2017 to Jan. 1, 2018. Much like prior performance periods, the focus of the report... |
| May 28, 2019 | CMS’s Primary Cares initiative means providers and tech must collaborate | Paying for value in primary care
The Primary Cares Initiative offers two primary pathways for primary care providers interested in experimenting in new primary care payments models. One called the Primary Care First institutes performance p... |
| Apr 22, 2019 | CMS launches new value-based payment models for primary care in 2020 | In an effort to promote primary care as part of the national shift to value-based care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have announced new payment models meant to shift more primary care providers to outcomes-based reimbursement.
Dubb... |
| Apr 22, 2019 | U.S. health officials unveil experiment to overhaul primary care | Federal health officials on Monday unveiled a new primary care experiment that seeks to pay doctors for providing stepped-up services that keep patients healthy and out of the hospital, an effort they say will transform basic medical servic... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | Humana launches nationwide value-based cancer care program | The insurer said it will provide compensation for better care navigation based on quality and cost metrics across various parts of the patient journey ranging from inpatient admissions, ED visits, prescription drugs, diagnostics and radiolo... |
| Apr 12, 2019 | Health care needs less #innovation | Health care has caught the innovation bug.
An industry famously resistant to change suddenly can’t stop innovating — or at least saying it is. Silicon Valley startups are disrupting health care. Academic medical centers are transforming it.... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | UnitedHealthcare to expand Medicare Advantage bundled payment arrangements | As part of the insurer’s priority to tie $75 billion of their provider reimbursements to value-based arrangements by the end of 2020, UnitedHealthcare is launching a bundled payment system in Medicare Advantage to shift payment structures i... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Digital health startups want to help Medicare prevent diabetes, if only it will let them | In rolling out a first-of-its-kind program to prevent diabetes, Medicare officials dashed the hopes of many startups in 2017 by deciding to exclude online health companies from participation.
Since the program’s launch, however, large crack... |
| Feb 14, 2019 | HIMSS19 Day 4 Announcements & Summary | HHS Launches New Payment Model for Emergency Ambulance Services
HHS announced a new payment model for emergency ambulance services that aims to allow Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) beneficiaries to receive the most appropriate level of care... |
| Feb 14, 2019 | CMS reveals new payment model for emergency ambulance services | Transport a patient to an alternate location, like a primary care provider’s office or urgent care clinic
Provide treatment in place with a practitioner, either on the scene or using telehealth
As of right now, Medicare only pays for unsche... |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Nearly 1,300 entities participate in BPCI Advanced model | Through the voluntary BPCI Advanced model, organizations will get bundled payments for certain episodes of care instead of receiving fee-for-service payments. The new initiative includes 32 bundled clinical episodes, 29 of which are inpatie... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | There’s no place like home for health care for the homebound | “What do you think of the coconut water?”
I took a sip before sitting down on my patient’s brown living room sofa. “It’s delicious,” I said, and I meant it.
“Yes, and it treats diabetes,” Mrs. Hamilton (not her real name) added triumphantly... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Medicare diabetes prevention program grapples with launch challenges | In all but a few locations, experts said, Medicare’s new prevention program — a yearlong series of classes about healthy eating, physical activity and behavioral change for people at high risk of developing diabetes — isn’t up and running y... |
| Apr 1, 2018 | Is the Trump administration undermining value-based care? | First, let’s evaluate the various pronouncements that seem to be anathema to payment reform and value-based care when Trump took office.
Post-election, Trump’s pick for CMS administrator, Seema Verma, said much of the same on the value-base... |
| Feb 5, 2018 | CMS cancels Direct Decision Support Model, calling it too “burdensome” for participants | On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it has decided to call off the Direct Decision Support Model.
According to a statement on the DDS Model web page:
CMS is not moving forward with the DDS Model due to operational... |
| Jan 30, 2018 | The Future of Clinics week 1 | See new models of care as we reinvent doctor's offices and rethink communities
For our upcoming SplashX Invent Health series, we're going to focus on the "Future of Clinics." I'm often asked, what do you mean by "clinics"... |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Accenture Partners with Loopback for New Value Based Care Models | Accenture has teamed with Loopback Analytics, a leader in population health analytics, to support health systems aiming to participate in new value-based care models, such as the new Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced pro... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | CMS’s nod to outpatient total knee replacements gives hospitals a big leg up | CMS has said it will continue to review the safety and feasibility of total joint replacements at ASCs, language that usually signals more change is coming. If the agency does eventually cover the procedures at ASCs, it will pose a signific... |
| Nov 7, 2017 | The problem with American health care is the care | A bipartisan health care deal recently brokered by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would give states greater power over health policy. But even if this nascent legislation falters, states will likely see their inf... |
| Oct 3, 2017 | Medicare innovation can spur the next round of payment reform | The economic imperative for better health care at a lower cost has never been more urgent. Changing the way that health care providers are paid is at the core of solving the problem. Bipartisan support has formed around the idea of flexibil... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Medication Adherence Tech: A dynamic and crowded market, but where are the winners in the space? (Part 1 of 2) | About the Authors: @DanGebremedhin is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm. He is a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, previously served as a Medical D... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Bundled payments are gaining momentum in orthopedics, but can they work in other specialties? | Bundled payments to initiate better coordinated care
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative (BPCI) was launched by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to support the transition to value-based care by developing ... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Government negotiation of prescription drug prices isn’t a panacea for lower costs | The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions is holding a hearing Tuesday on how the drug delivery system affects what patients pay for prescriptions. With Republican plans for health care reform stalled, and scrutiny surr... |
| May 15, 2017 | HealthLoop raises $8.4M Series B round to build commercial teams | The Digital Life Alliance has also invested in PatientsLikeMe.
HealthLoop’s technology is designed to improve communication between physicians and patients and support post-hospitalization follow-up care to track patients’ recovery. The dig... |
| May 2, 2017 | Urgent care services for cancer patients is an emerging trend among hospitals | “I thought I’d be waiting there all night,” said Craig, 33. But the hospital had already lined up a blood draw before she arrived and then sent her directly to get X-rays.
Clinicians had details of her cancer care at their fingertips. “They... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Vermont is experimenting with statewide healthcare reform, but is it a realistic model for other states? | The six-year initiative — an outgrowth of a failed attempt by Vermont a few years ago to adopt a single-payer plan for all residents — could eventually encompass almost all of its 16 hospitals, 1,933 doctors and 70 percent of its population... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | The opportunities and challenges of AI in health care | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When we asked dozens of venture capitalists where... |
