Value-based Payment Models: A Catalyst for Addressing the Non-Medical Factors that Influence Health As the health care industry strives to provide excellent person-centered care, high quality clinical care is not enough; it is imperative also to address non-medical factors that influence health. Research shows that social...
Value Tranformation: A Journey to Better Care and Lower Costs It is widely acknowledged that our rising unsustainable health care costs, coupled with poor health outcomes, necessitates transformation of the way we deliver and pay for health care. Historically, medical services have been paid for on...
Levers of Successful ACOs The Health Care Transformation Task Force interviewed high-performing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to assess structures and strategies that led to their success. Although each organization had differing approaches and experiences, common themes emerged in three major categories: 1) Achieving High-Value Culture, 2)...
Caring for high-need, high-cost patients requires providers to think beyond traditional clinical settings and address the social determinants of health. Yet integrating social services into health care can be a daunting challenge. HCTTF developed the below frameworks to help organizations identify their target population, understand...
Webinars: Transformation to Value: A Provider Prospective Featuring Jason Dinger, Chief Innovation Officer of Ascension Health and Rick Gilfillan, MD, CEO of Trinity Health Listen to webinar recording Download the presentation Originally Broadcast October 17, 2017 Transformation to Value: A Payer Perspective Featuring Kevin Klobucar, Executive Vice President of Health Care Value,...
We’ve all read the statistic from AHRQ that 5 percent of the population accounts for roughly half of total health care expenditures – but what can health care systems and payers do to identify these patients as a precursor to better managing their care? The Health...
Dr. Patrick Conway Deputy Administrator for Innovation & Quality, CMS Chief Medical Officer Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 445-G 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 Megan Cox Director, Division of Financial Risk Seamless Care Models Group Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Re: CMS-1461-P Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program; Accountable Care Organizations The Health Care Transformation Task Force (Task Force) is pleased to provide input on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to proposed policy and payment changes set forth in CMS-1461-P Medicare Program:...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force (Task Force) is dedicated to accelerating the transformation of the U.S. health care system to value-based business and clinical models aligned with improving outcomes and lowering costs. To that end, the Task Force developed principles that are important components...
Leaders Forming New Health Care Transformation Task Force Commit to Putting 75% of Their Businesses in Value-based Arrangements by 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 28, 2015) – Several of the nation’s largest health care systems and payers, joined by purchaser and patient stakeholders, today announced a powerful...