Alternative Payment Models
Alternative payment models are becoming more advanced as the government drives to accelerate generated savings. Track and stay ahead of this evolution to identify strategic partnerships and measure results.
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Webinar: Tying Payment to Value: Lessons Learned from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract
By the end of 2016, HHS plans to make 30% of fee-for-service payments through alternative payment models, such as accountable care organizations and bundled payments, and tie 85% of all fee-for-service payments to quality or value. This places increasing urgency on healthcare organizations to make a fundamental shift in their approach to care delivery.
Webinar: Managing Risk: What’s New with Bundled Payments and Are You Ready?
In the payment and delivery reform landscape, bundled payments are emerging as a promising model. Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers are adopting bundled acute and post-acute care payments to align cost and quality incentives across an entire episode of care.
Podcast: Volume & Risk in the New Year 2015
As risk shifts, so too does the responsibility for delivering high-quality outcomes at lower costs. In this podcast, listen in as Sally Rodriguez discusses the impact of this shift and the momentum surrounding delivery models. Sally explores what’s ahead for this changing landscape and the opportunities that await.
Podcast: CMS Releases Much-Anticipated Proposed MSSP Rule
The long waiting game for ACO stakeholders is no more after CMS finally released their much-anticipated proposed ACOs Rule 2.0 on December 1, 2014. Listen to Josh Seidman dive into the most recent CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Rule.
Podcast: Stakeholders Still Await Forthcoming ACO Rule
As stakeholders across the healthcare spectrum continue to wait for CMS’ ACOs Rule 2.0, Avalere’s Josh Seidman takes a crack at pinpointing the much anticipated ACO policy changes.
Podcast: The Time is Now for ACOs
With something as complex and as political as shared savings models in healthcare, there will always be push-back. But according to Avalere’s Josh Seidman, now is a unique opportunity for ACOs to finally succeed. Josh explains that the current healthcare infrastructure makes ACOs attainable thanks to recent changes, including increased electronic health record use, more provider comfort with comparative performance reporting, enhanced centrality of patient engagement and new incentives that reward accountability and value.