This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...
CMS began reimbursing providers who actively manage care delivery for Medicare patients with two or more chronic conditions through the Chronic Care Management Program Jan. 1. According to a survey ...
The makers of the cloud-based MediTouch EHR, HealthFusion, announced the launch of a chronic care management module in response to CMS’ Chronic Care Management changes. CMS’ Chronic Care Management ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services now is accepting applications for the MAHA ELEVATE model, a roughly $100 million initiative that will fund up to 30 cooperative agreements over three years ...
At the beginning of 2015, CMS began reimbursing physicians for the care they provide to a particular group of their Medicare patients remotely and between visits. This new billing code, called Chronic ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has announced the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) model, a 10‑year voluntary payment model that ...
CMS is developing the ACCESS Model, a new national program that will pay Medicare Part B–enrolled organizations based on chronic-condition outcomes, care coordination and social-needs integration, ...
How a remote patient monitoring company is reworking its tech to enroll in a Medicare program seeking to align payment with health care outcomes.
This study of community health workers as clinical extenders demonstrates significant cost savings in managing chronic conditions among Medicaid beneficiaries. Effective chronic disease management ...
CMS intends to use the $1.2 trillion in provider payment it controls to push whole menu of value-based care programs.
If you’ve ever lived with pain that just won’t quit, you’re not alone. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, 24.3% of adults experienced chronic pain in 2023, and 8.3% of ...
In Massachusetts’ largest Medicaid accountable care organization (ACO), high-risk care management significantly reduced spending, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations, demonstrating that ...