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?

A group of workers, surrounded by circular lines moving outwards.

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.

Chronic Care Management (CCM) For Neurology

Less than 1% of neurologists are compensated for between-visit care under the Medicare Chronic Care Management (CCM) program - let's fix that!

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.