The ACO Performance Playbook: Solving Today’s Challenges With Smart People, Processes & Tools

Accountable Care Organizations remain one of the most important levers for improving quality and lowering costs in the U.S. healthcare system. While performance is still achievable, Healthcare Finance News recently reported that out of 476 ACOs, 75 percent earned performance payments totaling $4.1 billion, representing 80 percent of all assigned beneficiaries, but reaching that level of success is getting harder.

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The Data Backbone of a Successful ACO: Why Population Health Analytics Is Your Competitive Advantage

The difference between an ACO’s success in shared savings and one that struggles often comes down to a single factor: how effectively it uses its data. With costs rising and influx of data reports flowing in, ACOs will not stand alone from their fragmented EHR reports. ACOs need population health analytics that bring insights from claims, clinical data, and patient demographics.

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Celebrating National Care Management Week: Highlighting Our Care Managers’ Impact on Patient Lives

Whether you call it the trusted guide in a patient’s healthcare journey, the essential bridge to better health, or the supportive partner in managing chronic conditions, care management is the cornerstone of value-based care.  Care managers play a pivotal role in helping patients manage their chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and depression. However, their impact extends far beyond disease management.

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Press Release: Netrin Health Unites Primary Care Providers to Accelerate Health Equity in the Underserved Communities of Maryland

Netrin Health brought Maryland’s independent primary care providers together as part of its ‘health equity strategy’ that aims to support physicians in identifying and reducing health disparities across the state. The event united primary care providers to accelerate health equity by raising awareness about health disparities, showcase the barriers to health equity, and highlight the strategies towards improving them, as a key priority within the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) and other value-based care programs. 

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