The Bridge to Value for Kidney Care
Which fee-for-service programs can help your practice fund the transition to value-based care, while building the operational and clinical muscles you’ll need for success?
Stop doing between-visit work for free
Are your physicians burnt out? In February 2024, athenahealth released the results of their third annual Physician Sentiment Survey, conducted by Harris Poll. The findings were both disturbing and (sadly) expected…
Population-scale care management is impossible – or is it?
Last week, I wrote about benchmarking a Chronic Care Management (CCM) program. Because Medicare’s CCM program is severely underpenetrated – only 3% of applicable providers are participating – many medical groups have never had the opportunity to see a scalable, financially sustainable program at work…
How to benchmark your Chronic Care Management (CCM) program
Less than 3% of providers participate in Medicare’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) program — even though Medicare increased reimbursement by 54% in 2022. CCM compensates providers for all the between-visit care they currently provide for free to their patients with multiple chronic conditions. So why don’t more providers run CCM programs? It’s a question of scale…
Balancing Kidney Care
Jennifer Huneycutt, CPA, CMPE explains how to match patients to programs for success in FFS and VBC.
Neurologists have practice management on the brain (sorry, we had to)
Coming out of the NeuroNet Summit 2024 last week, one thing is clear: neurology leaders are actively seeking solutions to the industry-wide challenges putting their practices at risk…
Are these 3 barriers keeping you from delivering better between-visit care?
Chronic Care Management can help medical groups deliver better care while creating a durable and profitable revenue stream — here’s how to overcome the most common barriers…
Chronic Care Management (CCM) For Neurology
Neurologists provide extensive between-visit care to their patients with chronic conditions – but only 0.37% are earning fair compensation for that care through Medicare’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) Program…
Combating Margin Compression
How wilI your practice beat margin compression? Experts at Pinnacle and Phamily will help you understand margin pressures and identify, prioritize, and invest in margin expansion opportunities that can enhance your profitability in 2024 and beyond.
How I started a profitable, patient-focused CCM program
A physician leader explains how his mid-sized nephrology practice delivers superior patient care, keeps up with inflation, and demonstrates outcome performance to payers.