
The Impact of Value-Based Care on Digital Strategy
[Author: TERRY MAYTIN | VP, Market Development & Commercialization] The U.S. healthcare system is rapidly transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care as part of massive and ongoing industry-wide transformation. Digital strategy is evolving to meet new challenges, help drive disruptive innovation, and better engage a large, growing audience...
Real-Time Patient Insights Can Keep Them Healthy
[Author: STEPHEN KEELER | VP, Payer & Provider Sales] The shift from fee-for-service to value-based payments isn’t easy. Still, there’s no avoiding the advance of MACRA and value-based payment models emerging from CMS and private payers. That’s why CMS introduced CPC+ - or the Comprehensive Primary Care program....
Achieve Win-Win Outcomes With Your Patients
[Author: STEPHEN KEELER | VP, Payer & Provider Sales] Approximately 117 million U.S. adults struggle with one or more chronic health conditions—and one in four have two or more chronic conditions to manage every single day, according to CMS. That’s why CMS kicked off Chronic Care Management (CCM) in January 2015,...
Get Your Patients Engaged in Managing Their Chronic Diseases
[Author: STEPHEN KEELER | VP, Payer & Provider Sales] $700 is a lot of money to put back in your patients’ pockets, but it's easily done. That’s the average amount saved when patients take part in self-management programs where they learn how to tackle their chronic diseases head on. What patients need is peer...
Be Proactive about Keeping High-Cost, High-Risk Patients Out of the ER
[Author: STEPHEN KEELER | VP, Payer & Provider Sales] Diabetes treatment cost the United States $244 billion in 2012. According to an NPR report, the cost jumps to $322 billion when you factor in lost productivity because of illness and disability. This is just one of the chronic diseases people live with across the...