Accounting & Financial Management

Results of the HealthEdge survey show the pace of change has led to shifting priorities for health plan leaders.

This comes despite a rapid decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations following the winter surge, with the challenges expected to be widespread.

<p>Castell's chief analytics officer Andrew Sorenson discusses the wider applications of value based care for providers.</p>

<p>Jamie Reedy, Summit Health’s chief of population health, explains how the company's data strategy supports Medicare ACOs and over 30 value-based contracts.</p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This week's top stories include Physician Partners of America agreeing to pay $24.5M to settle a number of alleged violations, including unnecessary testing, and CMS estimates that payments to acute care hospitals will increase in 2023 by $1.6B. </span></span></p>

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Other contributing factors include the emergence of new technologies, vaccine mandates and more federal scrutiny of mergers.

The uninsured rate dropped slightly as enrollment increases in Medicaid and the ACA offset losses in employer-sponsored coverage.

Average payments are $58,000 for small providers, $289,000 for medium providers, and $1.7 million for larger providers.

The projections are due in part to a strategy of investing in high-growth areas and introducing new health products and technologies.