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ACO Prioritization

Listen in as Avalere's Biruk Bekele talks about a new model Avalere has developed to help life sciences companies more effectively target ACOs and customize their value propositions in the diabetes space based on ACO performance. The number of ACOs has grown rapidly in the past few years, reflecting the Department of Health and Human Services’ push to move 50% of Medicare spending to value-based payment models by 2018.

Lessons from BPCI and Its Implications for CJR

Our experts share the lessons that we’ve learned from our extensive experience with the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative. The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement demonstration is a voluntary program sponsored by CMMI in which hospitals, physician group practices, and post-acute care providers accept clinical and financial risk for patients over specified episode time frames post-hospital discharge.

What Is an APM According to CMS?

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) passed last spring is transforming physician payment and standardizing requirements for APMs. ​Listen as Adam Borden and Jared Alves cover Advanced APMs, incentives CMS offers for providers to participate in APM, and the exclusion of specific tracks.

Avalere’s Take on CJR

Are bundled payments fundamentally changing the way care is provided? Listen in as Fred Bentley, Avalere Center & Payment Delivery Innovation, explains how bundled payment models are spurring clinical innovation and the creation of cross-continuum partnerships.

FDA Efforts in Patient Engagement

In recent years, stakeholders have increasingly become aware of the potential opportunities surrounding incorporation of the patient perspective into early stages of drug development. Listen to Debleena Sengupta discuss how patient input is evaluated and incorporated into the FDA's decision-making process.

Growing Patient Access to Electronic Health Data

To what extent do patients currently have access to their own data in their providers’ electronic health records, and what does the future hold for consumer access to their digital health data? Listen to Avalere's Josh Seidman share how far we’ve come with providing patients access to their health data, where there is still room for improvement, and what patients can expect to see in the future.

Quality Measurement in the Era of MACRA

While Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act or MACRA seeks to stabilize Medicare and assure physicians a predictable stream of revenue given a schedule of expected physician payment updates, how can providers leverage MACRA to improve quality of care? Listen in as Kristi Mitchell suggests how providers can use MACRA as a springboard to develop and implement relevant quality measures to close the current measurement gaps across disease conditions and care settings.

ACA Provisions Address Quality Reporting Requirements

The ACA is built on a foundation of improving the quality of care for all patients and includes a number of provisions to help consumers make decisions about where to receive their care as well as how to increase the transparency of services through value-based purchasing efforts and private sector programs. Listen in as Nelly Ganesan discusses the trend of using value-based systems in quality reporting programs which will require physicians to focus on outcomes versus processes.

Compassionate Use

When life sciences companies consider whether to allow compassionate use—access to unapproved investigational treatments outside of clinical trials—there are no easy answers. Brenda Huneycutt gleans insight from Arthur Caplan, PhD, and Alison Bateman-House, PhD, from the New York University Langone Medical Center Division of Medical Ethics on some of the many questions that life sciences companies should ask themselves before implementing a compassionate use policy.

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.

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