Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
Warrantee War`ran*tee"\, noun. A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications. Today when we buy practically any consumer item we expect a warrantee. What’s the “warrantee” after you are discharged from a hospital? Last September I wrote a post posing the question “What’s the Best Way to Get Hospitals [...]
We have learned that coordinating care of patients — particular care of Medicare patients — is complex and time consuming for physicians. A breakthrough study quantifies just how complex and challenging care coordination really is. The study is reported in the February 17 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine and is entitled Primary Care Physicians’ Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare [...]
by Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis What’s the right metaphor for Medicare Health Support (MHS), CMS’ major experiment with disease management for Medicare beneficiaries? We prefer to look it as a bridge failure that presents an opportunity to improve future engineering and design. We’ve now had the time to read, reread, and reread again [...]
by Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH CMS has just released the 2nd Report to Congress evaluating the Medicare Health Support (MHS) program. MHS is Medicare’s most visible and significant demo focusing on chronic disease management. We’ve been poring over the report and will provide more detailed analysis and implications later this week. This 2nd Report [...]
I’ve been critical in the past when CMS has been silent in explaining their thinking, so I’ll start this post by congratulating CMS on sharing a flood of details about the upcoming Medicare Medical Home Demonstration project. An email from CMS arrived in my inbox this morning at 2 am. That email notified me that they have [...]
Where would one expect to find CMS’ latest thinking on the upcoming Medicare Medical Home Demonstration project? The obvious answer would be “on the Official CMS MMHD home page ”, but you’d be wrong. CMS has issued a Medicare Medical Home Demonstration Payment Contractor RFP available on the Federal Business Opportunities website. Thanks to the [...]
CMS announced today that all 10 participating groups in the Physician Group Practice (PGP) demonstration achieved quality targets, and that the groups are sharing $16.7 million in incentive payments. The program rewards providers for improved outcomes delivered to Medicare patients with congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and diabetes. This goes a long way in [...]
Last week my esteemed colleague Dr. Jaan Sidorov and I conducted a webinar for WRG on Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) developments. The process of updating a PowerPoint forces one to collect one’s thoughts, and I’m glad to share with you the PowerPoint slides along with a few highlights about the evolution of the PCMH. [...]
On behalf of World Research Group, Dr. Jaan Sidorov and I will be conducting a webinar – Patient-Centered Medical Home Model: Overview and Update. The webinar takes place next Monday, July 28 at 12 Eastern. Click here for details. Hope you can join us. Tags: medical home
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