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Telehealth Expansion in Medicare: Policy Changes, Recent Trends in Adoption, and Future Impact
For countless individuals across the United States and the world, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid shift to digital life. In the healthcare industry, the sudden need to reduce patient travel and exposure while preserving provider capacity resulted in an unprecedented increase in the adoption of telemedicine. [...]
The Era of Health Information Fiduciaries:
Building on Health IT Regulation to Optimize Patient Navigation
Aneesh Chopra, CareJourney President, recently presented a session at the HLTH 2020 Virtual Conference about the Era of Health Information Fiduciaries – how entrepreneurs and innovators can build on health IT regulations to optimize patient navigation. [...]
On-Demand Webinar: What You Can Learn From VA-DOE’s COVID-19 Mortality Risk Model and the Emerging Trends Like Telehealth
On-Demand Webinar: What You Can Learn From VA-DOE’s COVID-19 Mortality Risk Model and the Emerging Trends Like Telehealth Webinar Recap COVID-19 has highlighted why access to timely and actionable public health data is critical for making quick, life-saving healthcare decisions. Which [...]
Social Determinants of Health: The Unaddressed Variable Accounting for 80% of Health Outcomes
Although research has shown that a person’s health outcome is closely related to the social and environmental backgrounds they live and interact with, questions around how social factors impact health outcomes have never received copious attention until the country was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
Opioid Epidemic, Part 2: The Pharmacy Impact
The US Opioid Crisis Continues to Grow. In our previous blog Opioid Epidemic, Part 1: The Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder and Impact of Distressed Communities, we utilized Medicare Part D data (over 40 million enrolled beneficiaries) to highlight the growing prevalence rates across the board in the U.S. In short, the key findings were [...]
On-Demand Webinar: The Personalized MA Era: Optimizing Supplemental Benefits for Chronically Ill Beneficiaries (SSBCI)
With its latest MA Call Letter, CMS finalized its approach for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to tailor supplemental benefits for beneficiaries with chronic conditions, including the flexibility to offer a portfolio of non-primarily health-related services. CareJourney recently hosted a webinar that was moderated by our President, Aneesh Chopra, along with a panel of leading health care leaders [...]
White Paper: CareJourney Provider Performance Index
Whether you’re making decisions about which providers to include in a network, seeking to improve cost and quality in that network, striving to improve one’s practice, or choosing providers for your own health care, there’s a clear need for a data-driven provider evaluation toolset.
The Future of Value-Based Oncology: Oncology Care First (OCF)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recent COVID-19 changes to it’s Alternative Payment Models (APMs) present an opportunity for the oncology community. With the changes, CMS has given Oncology Care Model (OCM) practices the opportunity to “forgo upside and downside risk for performance periods” during the pandemic, to remove COVID-19 related episodes, and to elect into aggregate quality measures. [...]
Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model
Earlier this year, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced five new payment models designed to transform primary care by paying providers for outcomes rather than services. Direct Contracting and Primary Care First are two of these models announced by CMS to help encourage providers […]
Everything You Need to Know about the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model
Kidney Care Choices (KCC) is a voluntary alternative payment model built on top of the Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Care (CEC) model structure. The goal of the KCC model is to encourage nephrologists, dialysis facilities, and ESRD healthcare practices to [...]
