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Value-Based Care Contracting for Risk-Bearing Entities
By Chris Bethell On May 20, 2021

Value-Based Care Contracting for Risk-Bearing Entities

Risk-bearing entities such as hospital systems, IDNs, and IPAs are central actors in the stage play that is the value-based...


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Tags: Value Based Payments

Solving VBP Contract Modeling Riddles
By Chris Bethell On January 27, 2021

Solving VBP Contract Modeling Riddles

VBP changes the way payers and providers (ACOs, IPAs, etc.) contract with each other. The complexity of the healthcare system...


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Tags: Value Based Payments, Health Plans

Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on Value-Based Payments
By Raj Lakhanpal, MD, FACEP, CEO, SpectraMedix On December 8, 2020

Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on Value-Based Payments

For the past ten years social determinants of Health (SDoH) have gained greater importance from health care organizations and...


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Tags: Value Based Payments, Health Plans, SDOH

What to Expect from a Biden Presidency: VBP Contracting for Health Plans
By Raj Lakhanpal, MD, FACEP, CEO, SpectraMedix On November 17, 2020

What to Expect from a Biden Presidency: VBP Contracting for Health Plans

With a new president in office, the entire country is wondering how one of Biden’s major platforms—healthcare reform—will...


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How Health Plans Can Use Cohort Management for Maximum Impact
By Chris Bethell On November 6, 2020

How Health Plans Can Use Cohort Management for Maximum Impact

Successful value-based payment (VBP) programs use cohort management to impact care beyond a clinical-level and address many of...


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Real Time Incentives for Providers to Achieve VBP Goals During COVID-19
By Raj Lakhanpal, MD, FACEP, CEO, SpectraMedix On October 29, 2020

Real Time Incentives for Providers to Achieve VBP Goals During COVID-19

Since February 2020, COVID-19 has continued its course throughout the United States. As the year comes to a close,...


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Tags: Value Based Payments

CMS CHART Model is Transforming Rural Health
By Chris Bethell On September 21, 2020

CMS CHART Model is Transforming Rural Health

What Does Rural Mean?

The large majority of American land is rural, so it can often feel like a daunting task to define which...


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How a National Patient ID Could Impact Value-Based Payment
By Chris Bethell On September 8, 2020

How a National Patient ID Could Impact Value-Based Payment

National patient identification has been a hot topic since HIPAA was enacted in 1996, calling for the development of a unique...


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How Health Plans Can Use SDoH Data to Succeed in Value-Based Payment
By Chris Bethell On August 4, 2020

How Health Plans Can Use SDoH Data to Succeed in Value-Based Payment

COVID-19 has reignited the conversation regarding social determinants of health (SDoH) as certain minority groups are at a...


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The Value of Transparency in VBP Contracts
By Chris Bethell On July 16, 2020

The Value of Transparency in VBP Contracts

Physicians’ attitudes toward value-based payment (VBP) have changed within the last four years. In 2016, the majority of...


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How Health Plans Can Take Value-Based Payment from Contract to Practice in 5 Steps
By Chris Bethell On June 24, 2020

How Health Plans Can Take Value-Based Payment from Contract to Practice in 5 Steps

We’ve all had great ideas on paper. But for our endeavors to come to fruition, they need to be successfully implemented. The...


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How Coronavirus Will Impact Telehealth & the Future of Value Based Payment
By Chris Bethell On May 14, 2020

How Coronavirus Will Impact Telehealth & the Future of Value Based Payment

As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, the U.S. has become the country with the highest number of confirmed cases. As...


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Tags: Value Based Payments, Health Plans, COVID 19

90’s Blunders: What You Can Learn for VBP Contracting Now
By Chris Bethell On May 8, 2020

90’s Blunders: What You Can Learn for VBP Contracting Now

It’s been thirty years since the Clinton Administration attempted a sweeping healthcare system overhaul. To this day change in...


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Tags: MIPS, Value Based Payments, Health Plans

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