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Care coordination: What's needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?

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Why do you suggest that care coordination with post-acute providers will become more critical than before to support the rise of value-based care? Post-acute care is a key part of the care continuum and a significant component of healthcare spend. Medicare spends nearly $60 billion on post-acute care annually.

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CMS Proposed Changes for ACO Reporting 2021

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From the next performance year (2021), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) expect different reporting requirements under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has recommended changes for ACO reporting criteria. The requirements are somewhat the same as for QPP MIPS.

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Risk Adjustment and Incentives for Upcoding in Medicare

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To account for differences in disease burden across a Medicare Advantage (MA) plans patient population, uses risk adjustment based on patient disease burden. One key question is whether providers under traditional Medicare (TM) code differently than Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. diabetes, heart failure). 2020 algorithm).

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How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

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In short, new organization- and provider-level emphasis on including SDOH along with traditional clinical diagnosis and utilization data is helping to "round out" the picture of patient populations targeted for care management interventions.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

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In March, Signify Health acquired Caravan Health , which serves Medicare beneficiaries through accountable care organizations. "We are both building an integrated experience that supports a more proactive, preventive and holistic approach to patient care."

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Ohio State & CVS Form ACO to Elevate Medicare Care in Central Ohio

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What You Should Know: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center a nd CVS Accountable Care, part of CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS), today announced the creation of an accountable care organization (ACO) to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries by Ohio State providers in central Ohio.

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How CommonSpirit Reduced Medicare Spending by $136M

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CommonSpirit Health carved out $136 million in savings to Medicare for 2020, while also improving overall outcomes for hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries, the company recently announced. CommonSpirit Health is a participant in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), which began back in 2012 after being designed by the U.S.

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