Jeff Lagasse
The model is part of CMMI’s suite of direct contracting models and offers incentives to improve care across geographic regions.
Healthcare workers are becoming frustrated, anxious, overwhelmed, burned out and worried about exposing their loved ones to the disease.
One factor contributing to the decline in primary care investment may be a demand-driven decline due to rising deductibles and cost sharing.
The findings speak to the importance of patient experience and the need for providers to offer more digital approaches.
Expenses continue to rise as hospitals replenish staff to meet rising coronavirus cases and incur the costs of drugs and PPE.
An analysis of social media messages shows scant guidance for things like infection control and proper PPE usage.
That brings the total number of enrollees to 2.4 million, a 41% jump over last year but also with more days to sign up over 2019.
803K sign up in week 2 of open enrollment
Medicare negotiation could result in 94,000 fewer deaths annually, and reduce spending by $475.9 billion by 2030.
Automating risk stratification kept patients out of the ER, giving financial incentive to move to an alternative payment model.