Our annual predictions for 2025 continue with VBC. Throughout the next few weeks we will be asking the industry experts what they think we will see in 2025. Check back as we cover interoperability, virtual care, and how AI will impact healthcare finance, security, RCM, and clinical issues.
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By Eric Demers – With more than half of patients using a health plan’s provider directory to select a physician, incorrect physician information has quietly become one of the biggest barriers to treatment. Value-based care is supposed to optimize patient outcomes, but that’s tough to do when patients can’t find the appropriate healthcare services.
By Justin Barnes & Greg Fulton – Explaining new CMS policy allowing concurrent CCM and RPM billing for qualified patients, and examination of how chronic care dominates healthcare spending and the opportunity to embark on value-based care revenue streams through MIPS and ACO programs.
By Ram Krishnan – As part of a broader movement across healthcare to improve patient outcomes while reducing costs, behavioral health has seen a shift toward value-based care incentivizing providers to deliver high-quality and efficient care by linking payment to patient health outcomes.
By Matt Fisher – Value based care has become an evergreen topic in healthcare circles with the accompanying message that value based care will transform healthcare. Is that transformation happening? Is the value based care discussion stagnating or getting stuck on certain concepts?
By Misty Graham – Key stakeholders in the healthcare industry, including health plans, clinical data registries, and accountable care organizations, must collaborate to improve health outcomes, enhance patient experiences, manage chronic diseases, and provide better access to care while keeping costs low.
By Lynn Carroll & David Wolf – The fundamental goal of value-based care (VBC) is to improve patient health outcomes by prioritizing preventive care and wellness, thereby reducing overall healthcare spending through better management of costly chronic diseases.
By Justin Barnes – A key to improving care, cutting costs and increasing revenue is through value-based care levers providing a foundation toward more favorable payer negotiation. Let’s look at building chronic care management into value-based care.
By Patty Hayward – Healthcare call centers are embracing artificial intelligence and automation as tools for both improving the patient/plan member experience and streamlining processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.