States, health plans, and providers, including federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), continue to move away from fee-for-service payments and toward value-based payment (VBP) arrangements. In California, as in other parts of the country, these payment arrangements reward primary care providers for improving quality and decreasing health care costs, while offering greater flexibility to deliver care in innovative ways.
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Individuals with disabilities dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid are at higher risk for poor health outcomes when compared to individuals without disabilities.[1] This conversation, in collaboration with ICS, will provide a platform for questions to be answered on how health plans and providers can improve health outcomes for this population by addressing gaps in care coordination that often disrupt continuity of care and lead to fragmentation of care.
Resources for Integrated Care (RIC) invites you to attend an upcoming event, Disability-Competent Care (DCC) Conversation on Access with ADANN. This interactive event will feature an opportunity for providers and health care professionals to ask questions to representatives from the Americans with Disability Act National Network (ADANN) about improving the accessibility of care for persons with disabilities.
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (EDT)
The promise of using data to make more informed decisions seems simple. Consumers make data-driven decisions every day when buying household goods, booking hotels, or choosing where to eat. Businesses use data every day to determine the ads we see, the best location for expansion, or the cost of their services. But using data to drive decisions about social programs continues to remain out of reach for many policymakers and program administrators at all levels.
The State of New Jersey is saving $1.5 billion on prescription drug costs for its unionized employees over the next three years and health costs for members of Nebraska’s food workers union are down 5 to 15 percent. In our webinar next week, you’ll hear how these savings were achieved and what we can learn about controlling health care costs and increasing access to good care from efforts led by unions and their employer partners.
CMS will hold a webinar on the Primary Care First payment structures on Thursday, June 27th at 12pm EDT. Register HERE. This event is the first webinar in a two-part series on Primary Care First model payments. This event will discuss the process for calculating Primary Care First model payments, which will include information about beneficiary attribution and model participation overlap.
Many organizations are responding to external pressures to transform the delivery of care and increase its value proposition. Quality improvement is ramping up. How can you ensure changes are an improvement from the patient perspective? This webinar shares a framework that is useful to organizations exploring ways to engage patient and family advisors as quality improvement partners. Examples of successful collaborations in the ambulatory setting and key steps to ensure success will be highlighted including the positive results achieved.
As much as 30% of care delivered in the U.S. is duplicative, unnecessary, and has limited benefits to patients.
Why does this happen?
Because healthcare providers and patients are busy. It may seem challenging to take on a new initiative like the Choosing Wisely implementation, even when it can decrease the prevalence of medical overuse. However, it will ultimately save time, lower costs, and most importantly, provide patients with the best, most appropriate care.
Members of the public are invited to tune in to this meeting via webinar/teleconference. Registration is required.
Members of the Advisory Panel on Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science (CEDS) previously served on the Advisory Panel on Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options and the Advisory Panel on Communication and Dissemination Research. PCORI's Board of Governors approved the creation of this panel in December 2017 to advise and provide assistance in identifying our National Priorities and to establish our patient-centered research agenda.
