Medicaid Rx Drugs Shifting Away from FFS
: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has spent 4 years advancing value-based care across all programs. They also sought to remove barriers to value-based payments for drug pricing.
The Four Pillars to Build On in a VBP Environment
Four Pillars to Build On in a VBP Environment THE VBP Blog [1/14/2021] In 2020, we took on the monumental task of evaluating all ten states that offered managed care programs for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) population. In our final blog of that series, we broke down our findings into four main pillars. These frameworks provided structure across the many different approaches over the ten states. At the end of 2020, we offered our commitments as a company and in this blog we take a look at how those cross over. 4 Pillars of Reviewing Value-Based Care in I/DD Managed Care Time Matters: more than almost any other factor, the states that gave themselves time for a methodical… Read More »The Four Pillars to Build On in a VBP Environment
CMMI Releases Overview of Value-Based Care Models
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) introduced models that supported value-based care while looking for ways to lower cost and refine risk adjustment.
Expansion of Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model Expected to Create Over $6 Billion in Savings
U.S health care policymakers just announced their plans to expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model. This is a 9 state Medicare demonstration to align reimbursement quality of care and reimbursement.
Home Care Becoming Key Investment Area
BDO, an accounting, tax, financial advisory, and consulting organization based in Chicago, recently released the results of their 2021 Healthcare CFO Outlook Survey. This survey includes responses regarding the health care industry outlook from 100 CFO.
The Power of Digital Tools for Advancing Value-Based Care
Veeneta Lakhani, SVP of Health Services at Vida Health, believes that it is time to utilize digital tools to increase the quality of care and patient outcomes.
HHS to Expand Home Health Value-Based Payment Model
CMS announced that the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model has been certified for expansion. The HHVBP Model has led to an average annual savings of $141 million to Medicare.
New Federal Direct-Contracting VBP Models Met With Concern
While some have responded well to new federal direct-contracting value-based payment models with excitement, others believe there are serious flaws in them.
Study Finds Better Outcomes for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries than Traditional FFS Medicare
Among others, the study found that there were better outcomes in MA than FFS for all populations analyzed in 17 of 22 clinical quality of care measures.
Commitments for 2021 – Onward!
Commitments for 2021 – Onward! THE VBP Blog Looking back at 2020 would be what most of us do this time of year, however, we are always looking forward and Onward! So, there are commitments we making to drive our planning for 2021, we hope these help you to make your own commitments and resolutions for the upcoming year. Photo by Hide Obara on Unsplash Our Commitments for 2021 1. Stay True to Our Mission to be Advocates First We say that every time we introduce ourselves to new clients. We find that having a mission helps guide our decisions, our approach, and recommendations we make. When you think about your own organization: Revisit and update your mission to make… Read More »Commitments for 2021 – Onward!