Read the article: How to Get New and Established Primary Care Physicians Aligned on the Delivery of Accountable Care
Read the article: Population Health News: Thought Leaders’ Corner
The healthcare industry continues to have questions about getting primary care physicians aligned on the delivery of accountable care, as well as how to improve primary care as a whole. Dr. Debbie Zimmerman spoke with the American Journal of Managed Care to answer those questions and touch on how Lumeris is helping health systems reach these goals.
KLAS recently released a report naming Lumeris the top-rated value-based care managed services provider in the area of client-reported impact on the Triple Aim. In this blog post, Peter Kinhan discuss the five reasons operating partners are critical for the transformation to value-based care.
One-third of chronic condition patients who exchanged emails with their care providers said the communication improved their care, a recent Kaiser Permanente study published in The American Journal of Managed Care shows.
The shift to value-based care and payment models is well under way, and as the Huron Consulting Group said in a recent report, “While the appropriateness of the rate of change can be debated, health systems can be sure that transformation has started and population health management is the future of healthcare delivery.”
Healthcare IT News polled the chief information officers at the 21 winning Healthcare IT News’ 2015 Best Hospital IT Departments and asked them about the projects they’ll be pursuing in 2016 as well as their predictions for healthcare or health IT in the coming year.
Read the article: Maximizing the Benefits of Taking on Risk
In late October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Fiscal Year 2016 percentage payment reports for the 3000+ hospitals participating in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program.
Debbie Zimmerman reflects on the Lumeris & CAPG expert panel and the delivery of accountable primary care.