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What Does Performance Under Medicare's Value-based Modifier (VM) Program Suggest Concerning Physician Performance Under MACRA: A Conversation With Kelly Cleary (July 20th)
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The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) will sunset three current Medicare performance measurement and incent…
9 years, 10 months ago
Recent Efforts to Improve Quality Measurement: A Conversation with Dr. Helen Burstin (June 15th)
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Measuring health care quality and outcomes effectively and efficiently remains a daunting task. Quality measures are largely seen as too p…
9 years, 11 months ago
How CMS Proposes to Annually Update Medicare Physician Reimbursement Under MACRA: A Conversation with Mara McDermott (June 14th)
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In an extremely busy year for Medicare delivery and payment reform, regulatory implementation of the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reautho…
9 years, 11 months ago
Andrea LaFountain Discusses Her Recent Work: "How Patients Think: A Science-based Strategy for Patient Engagement and Population Health" (May 26th)
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What accounts for so called patient compliance or adherence or why is it the case physicians and other providers are frequently unable to s…
10 years ago
Daniel Dawes Discusses His Recent Book,"150 Years of Obamacare" (April 27th)
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Since, in part, April is recognized by DHHS as National Minority Health Month (this year's theme is "Accelerating Health Equity in the Nati…
10 years, 1 month ago
Operational Challenges Associated with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): A Conversation with Dr. Richard Morel (April 21st)
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As a follow up to my April 1st conversation with Jim Gera concerning bundled payments, during this podcast Dr. Richard Morel discusses Medi…
10 years, 1 month ago
How Orthopedic Bundled Payments Are Being Operationalized: a Conversation with Jim Gera (April 1st)
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Today, CMS launched the agency's second bundled payment demonstration, a mandatory five-year initiative in approximately 800 hospitals nati…
10 years, 2 months ago
Payment Reform, California Style: A Conversation with Dr. Jill Yegian (March 2nd)
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California has been long known for health care delivery and payment reform (think, for example, Kaiser Permanente). With efforts nation-w…
10 years, 3 months ago
The Oral Health of Seniors and Medicare Coverage Thereof: A Conversation with Marko Vujicic (January 28, 2016))
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The Medicare program, now in its 51st year, still does not cover oral/dental health care such as exams, X-rays, cleanings, fillings, tooth …
10 years, 4 months ago
Iora Health's Novel Approach to Delivering Primary Care: A Conversation with David Judge (December 23rd)
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Much of the health care industry's effort to improve health care payment and delivery centers around improving primary care. This is largel…
10 years, 5 months ago