Payment Models

Letter to Congressional leadership warns that ending payments could stall transition to value-based care

Employing the right technology can bring improvement in key performance metrics

Recent advances are enabling health care organizations to mitigate risk while providing high-quality, cost-efficient care

Practices can build engagement through relevant, targeted messaging and by making communication as easy as possible

Physicians, health care groups line up to support Value in Health Care Act.

New playbook has endorsement of AMA, health insurers, accountable care organizations.

Mental health care access remains a problem for patients, but deliver models and services are evolving.

Industry-wide trend will help improve health equity, make care more affordable

Association says moving away from fee-for-service would benefit both patients and clinicians

Technology has potential to improve provider efficiency and patient outcomes

Greater use of electronic metrics could help reduce spending on quality measurement

But providers need to understand, address patients’ social health determinants

But contracts require close alignment between primary care and specialist providers to succeed

A unified data ecosystem will provide the foundation for the next generation of patient-care technology.

For concierge doctors, practicing in a model that completely reverses the traditional paradigm, the difference in chronic care can be profound.

How AI can be used to activate patients to make important wellness appointments, such as cancer screenings.

As payers push docs to shoulder more risk, practices need to develop a strategy to maximize revenue

Company announces acquisition of AI company, change to public benefit corporation.

‘Winging it’ is not the right approach when providers integrate social determinants of health into care models.

Letter calls for actions that would make it easier for doctors to participate and stay in alternative payment models

Steps toward improvement include more access to primary care.

The health system must rethink its strategy to enable primary care providers to develop better game plans for chronic disease patients, such as people living with type 2 diabetes.

To help practices prepare for their value-based care transition, here are three top considerations for success.

Venture with Walgreens puts primary care, pharmacies under one roof.

$1.7 trillion spending plan will have effects across health care sector.

The No. 5 administrative challenge physicians will face in 2023.

Lawmakers tout spending plan, but medical groups respond with ‘dismay,’ say seniors’ health will be at risk.

The health care industry will face myriad challenges in the coming year

Funding changes could affect 300,000 clinicians, millions of patients.