In this brief, Kaiser Family Foundation looks beneath national trends to examine Medicare Advantage penetration rates and growth rates in counties across the country to assess the extent to which Medicare Advantage plans are poised to cover more beneficiaries than traditional Medicare across the country.
The final results of a special Centene shareholder vote indicate that 99 percent of the shares voting at the special meeting voted in favor of the proposal, representing 85 percent of all outstanding shares.
This study conducted by eHealth Initiative shows the diversity of health IT utilization in population health management. Because respondents showed high engagement with population health management and data analytics, researchers state that the importance of those concepts is evident. However, integration of data and its usefulness serve as serious inhibitors.
A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine has found that financial integration between physicians and hospitals has led to higher spending in outpatient care.
Driven by a seemingly ever-expanding list of potential and innovative benefits such as at-home meal delivery and home-air cleaning, Medicare Advantage plans are pointing the way to a more consumer-centric (…)
Listen to this podcast featuring Matt Cox, Chief Marketing Officer of Lumeris, discuss the importance of outcomes and how technology can enable a better healthcare system: Providers must take on (…)
Watch a new video featuring Matt Cox, Chief Marketing Officer, discuss how Lumeris is helping providers make the move to value-based contracts to manage risk successfully and enabling collaborative payer (…)
According to CMS, a record 22.4 million seniors will be covered by a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan in 2019, up 11.5 percent from 2018. One reason that MA plans are (…)
Hospitals continue to have more difficulty establishing value-based payment (VBP) arrangements with commercial health plans compared with government payers Commercial-plan VBP caution may be thawing, especially around Medicare Advantage Hospitals (…)
Health systems considering a strategic move away from the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment model to value-based payment approach can benefit from modeling the risks and likely effects of such a (…)