This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...
CMS began reimbursing providers who actively manage care delivery for Medicare patients with two or more chronic conditions through the Chronic Care Management Program Jan. 1. According to a survey ...
The makers of the cloud-based MediTouch EHR, HealthFusion, announced the launch of a chronic care management module in response to CMS’ Chronic Care Management changes. CMS’ Chronic Care Management ...
Can the model generate sufficient clinical improvement to justify the likely distortions that accompany large-scale payment ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has announced the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) model, a 10‑year voluntary payment model that ...
At the beginning of 2015, CMS began reimbursing physicians for the care they provide to a particular group of their Medicare patients remotely and between visits. This new billing code, called Chronic ...
CMS is developing the ACCESS Model, a new national program that will pay Medicare Part B–enrolled organizations based on chronic-condition outcomes, care coordination and social-needs integration, ...
Accepted across both Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic tracks, Innovaccer brings AI-led care orchestration to Medicare's most significant chronic care payment reform ahead of July 2026 Innovaccer, a leading ...
Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; how Medicare pays for health tech; the use of AI in clinical care; mental health chatbots; and consumer ...
This study of community health workers as clinical extenders demonstrates significant cost savings in managing chronic conditions among Medicaid beneficiaries. Effective chronic disease management ...
If you’ve ever lived with pain that just won’t quit, you’re not alone. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, 24.3% of adults experienced chronic pain in 2023, and 8.3% of ...
In Massachusetts’ largest Medicaid accountable care organization (ACO), high-risk care management significantly reduced spending, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations, demonstrating that ...