Breaking Down TEAM and the New CMS FY 2026 Proposed Rule Changes
TEAM Background
The CMS Innovation Center established the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) in the FY 2025...
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Understanding Big Data in Healthcare: The Three V's
With the rise of risk-bearing arrangements and value-based care, “big data” is becoming more prominent in the sphere of...
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...
Solving Value-Based Contract Modeling Riddles
Value-based care (VBC) changes the way payers and providers (ACOs, IPAs, etc.) contract with each other. The complexity of...
Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on Value-Based Care
For the past ten years social determinants of Health (SDoH) have gained greater importance from health care organizations...
How Health Plans Can Use Cohort Management for Maximum Impact
Successful value-based care (VBC) programs use cohort management to impact care beyond a clinical level and address many of...
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...
How a National Patient ID Could Impact Value-Based Care
National patient identification has been a hot topic since HIPAA was enacted in 1996, calling for the development of a...
How Health Plans Can Use SDoH Data to Succeed in Value-Based Care
COVID-19 has reignited the conversation regarding social determinants of health (SDoH) as certain minority groups are at a...
The Value of Transparency in VBC Contracts
Physicians’ attitudes toward value-based care (VBC) have changed within the last four years. In 2016, the majority of...