In the News: Dec 5–12
By Sg2 TeamThis week: A study explores alternatives to opioid prescriptions and pregnant women are not getting recommended vaccines.
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This week: A study explores alternatives to opioid prescriptions and pregnant women are not getting recommended vaccines.
Having a dedicated approach to partnership strategy can help get an effective, and ultimately successful, partnership off the ground.
This week: App-based service helps patients locate the “right” doctor; collaboration can aid rural health provider shortages; waste accounts for 25% of US health care spending
CMS’s recent release of claims data related to the BPCI-Advanced program has increased anxiety levels across the country. Providers currently participating in, or considering entering into, the BPCI-Advanced program for...
This week: A new app to help parents of preemies with care coordination, an underutilized Medicare program for diabetic patients, and a new partnership focuses on reducing infant mortality.
Let’s take a look at Primary Care First, a 5-year, voluntary payment model that’s like Comprehensive Primary Care Plus’s (CPC+) older sibling who moved out of the house.
This week: Cigna is expanding their Medicare Advantage offerings; the FCC plans to reform the Rural Health Care Program; and consumerism grows in the transition to value-based care.
There is a lot happening in traditional Medicare alternative payment model (APM) development and evolution. Sg2 is here to help our members stay on track and think through the strategy...
This week: An ACO’s population health platform helps prevent strokes and heart attacks; just 1 in 5 hospitals are meeting maternity care best practices; and TAVR patients have improved outcomes...
If you are not yet involved in BPCI-A, you should give serious consideration to participating in the initiative for the experience it provides with episode payment models—and Sg2 can help.
This week: CMS's new primary care risk-sharing models; medically tailored meal programs are tied to fewer IP admissions; a new method for rare genetic disease causes in children.
This week: iVRT may help patients with chronic pain; new data ties financial risk sharing and cost and quality of care; and WHO releases first recommendations for digital tech use.