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December 26, 2024: Case #2 – Meet Tom a 58-year-old spouse of an employee in your company
Case Report #2 Meet Tom a 58-year-old spouse of an employee in your company
Tom is the spouse of Elaine, one of your best employees. She has worked her way to a key supervisor position. Tom and Elaine have been married for 32 years. Tom works part-time from home…
November 26, 2024: Meet Margaret, a 47-year-old female employee in your company.
Meet Margaret, a 47-year-old female employee in your company.
How would your company’s benefits support her?
Margaret is a 47-year-old hard worker and is a valued member of her work group at your company. She’s been employed by your company for 10 years. Margaret is married and has three children…
October 7, 2024: Talking about Risk
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care
If you were to ask someone how they felt right now, most would say … “I feel fine”. Some are fine. They are young and healthy and have little…
September 25, 2024: The Challenge of Complex Care Management Part D
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 22
Aligning Care Management Incentives Around Value
Highly effective care management tightly embedded with the primary care team can be tremendously effective in improving patient outcomes. The converse is also…
September 18, 2024: The Challenge of Complex Care Management Part C
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 21
Entities defining the work
We have much to say about pseudo-regulatory companies that create standards and processes for both primary care and care management. As these companies do…
September 11, 2024: The Challenge of Complex Care Management Part B
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 20
The CMS requirements and unintended consequences.
In the typical FFS ACO, one of the previous core metrics that CMS has offered is the percent of patient enrolled in…
September 4, 2024: The Challenge of Complex Care Management Part A
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 19
One of the main objectives of primary care and within value-based payment models is to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care. The top 8-10% of…
August 23, 2024: Primary Care is an Investment, the Rest of Healthcare is a Payment (J. Constantz)
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 18
The message is clear: Investing in primary care is a powerful and effective strategy to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce costs, and promote equity. Decades of research have…
August 19, 2024: Patient Loyalty
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 17
Competition among health systems for primary care patients. According to some reports, only 40% of employees when asked report that they have a personal physician.
Once upon a time, in what we…
August 9, 2024: The Patient’s Health literacy Matters
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 16
A patient’s health literacy has a dramatic impact on their ability to learn and adapt. The primary responsibility for assessing and adapting to the patient’s health literacy falls…