HFMA ANI Conference Brings Leaders Together to Discuss Challenges Impacting RCM
The HFMA National Health Institute hosted its annual ANI conference for 4 days in Las Vegas at the end of June. Braving scorching 110+ degree…
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Impact of the National Election and New Value Based Care Models on the Healthcare Industry
Last year we began hosting virtual round table panel discussions addressing our industry’s most pressing topics. Now we’re taking on two more topics: the National election and the transition to new value-based care models.
eCaring: An Essential Tool for Value Based Digital Care Management Part II
A “value-based digital health” reimbursement model as a plausible payment solution for new technology appeared in the 2016 McKinsey Report How Healthcare Systems Can Become Digital-Health Leaders by Gerardo Aue. The concept advocates that since health systems hold the data needed to measure outcomes, why not use this information to measure the outcomes of digital health services?
Why You Need a Data Analytics Plan and How to Get Started
By Sou Chon Young – Rapidly changing payment methods. Shift from fee-for-service to value-based care. Declining insurance reimbursements. Increased government regulations. Sound familiar? The litany of changes impacting the healthcare industry appears to grow longer every day.
3 Evolving Revenue Cycle Trends: Leveraging Them to Improve Financial Viability
By Celeste Daye – Leading healthcare organizations like Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and Cleveland Clinic have dubbed 2016 the “year of integration” for revenue cycle. They see consolidating complex revenue systems as the best way to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and improve the patient experience.
Fee-For-Service to Value-Based Care: The Future is Now
By Don Michaels PhD – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a stated goal of shifting 85% of Medicare fee-for-service reimbursement into value-based models by 2016. Private payers will no doubt follow close behind. Meeting this aggressive goal is causing angst among healthcare providers with much conjecture about what it means for their organizations going forward.
Shift to Value Based Care a Top Topic at HIMSS16
HIMSS16 in Las Vegas this year was an amazing event, attracting almost 42,000 attendees and 1,300 exhibitors. It was five days of educational sessions, keynotes,…
Why Do We Need a New Operating System for Effective Shared Care Plans?
By Robert Rowley MD – The way we pay for healthcare is changing. The transition from fee-for-service (“fee for volume”) to value-based care is beginning to take shape, and will do so increasingly in the next few years. Federal pressures as well as private industry pressures are driving this change, as reviewed nicely in a white paper by Houlihan Lokey, “Value-Based Care.”
Validic Forecasts the Growth in Health IT Adoption and Spending for 2016
Adoption and utilization of digital health tools among providers, clinical research organizations, payers and pharmaceutical companies is set to increase this year, according to a paper Validic published in advance of the and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) association’s 2016 Annual Conference & Exhibition.