By Alex Moran – We have become very good at telling the next provider that a patient has left the hospital. We have built almost nothing for hearing what happens after that. I find that strange, because the people with the best view of a person’s condition after discharge are usually not in a clinical setting at all. They are in the home, and they are there several times a week.

NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino discusses the stages of CIN maturity, from launching the network to optimizing operations and scaling for growth. He explores how organizations can define a strong value proposition, strengthen care management and utilization management capabilities, improve network integrity, and position the CIN for long-term high performance.

By Frank Forte – A CFO in a large Midwest health system had what looked like an easy call to make. Consolidate the organization’s complex claims into a single generalist revenue cycle management (RCM) platform and save roughly $400,000. The added benefit was fewer vendors to manage.

By Ramkumar Pichandi – Healthcare has automated a growing number of administrative actions, but we have been less disciplined about defining when the underlying work is actually finished. An eligibility response arrives. An authorization request is sent. A claim passes a pre-submission check. Each event can be recorded as successful even when the account still carries an unresolved issue.