Data in healthcare is now essentially ubiquitous: there are mountains of it everywhere. With the promise of tech and big data, healthcare systems snapped up technology that promised to capture all their data and provide enhanced and unprecedented insights. EHRs were pushed on physicians, claiming better data collection, organization, and utilization.

From the FFS perspective all these yearly patient evaluations add revenue at a relatively higher rate than a typical office visit. A Medicare AWV generates the same work RVU rate as..

As a company working towards a value-based care program, the number one thing needed for success is the alignment of your incentives with each of your team members. 

A misconception exists that physicians must choose between practicing fee-for-service (FFS) medicine and Value-based Care (VBC). We often hear the phrase "a foot in two canoes" to represent the perceived need to abandon one watercraft for another identical one in their move to VBC, the notion being you can't simultaneously be in both payment models, and you need to choose. This perception can be paralyzing when considering making a business move within one of these practice / delivery models.

ACP is a face-to-face service (including telemedicine) where a patient and their physician discuss the patient’s health care wishes should they become unable to make decisions about their care. Things like advance directives and Health Care Proxies are discussed. [You can generally find ADs on your State attorney generals’ office website.] 

Pre-visit planning is a strategy used to maximize the benefits of a healthcare visit with extra preparation, focusing the appointment, and creating a patient-specific care plan. Overall, pre-visit planning ensures a smoothly operating clinic and benefits both patients and healthcare providers.

The strategies involved in pre-visit planning are meant to streamline appointments, improve communication between patients and providers, increase physician and clinic profitability and enhance the quality of medical care provided at a given clinic.

While it’s nearly impossible to attribute just one, or even a handful of causes to the lack of traction or success for value-based care, it is possible to assess influence and recommend focused avenues for positive change.

If you’ve been considering advance care planning (ACP), you’re in good company. More than 90 percent of Americans believe it is important to discuss the treatment and palliative options they would choose to pursue if they were to become incapacitated by medical issues in the future, according to THE CONVERSATION PROJECT’S 2018 NATIONAL SURVEY. Yet, they also report that only 32 percent have actually conducted these conversations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching, often unanticipated consequences across every facet of life, from commerce and labor to social life and education. Unsurprisingly, it has also impacted health care; however, its influence has ranged far beyond debates over vaccines and mask mandates.

It is no secret that healthcare has been in crisis — a staffing crisis. While the pandemic certainly exacerbated the situation, present workloads, emerging patterns contrary to traditional practice, and burnout are only the latest in a long line of factors straining the healthcare workforce.