Fierce Healthcare March 12, 2018
The new law gives some ACOs more flexibility to provide telehealth services.
In 2015, two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries had two or more chronic illnesses and together accounted for 93% of total program spending. Small wonder, then, that healthcare systems are re-engineering how they care for older, chronically ill patients as Medicare shifts greater risk for cost and outcomes from payer to provider.
There’s some welcome news on this front from Capitol Hill. Multispecialty medical groups and health systems operating accountable care organizations or participating in Medicare Advantage plans will find some new tools for managing this patient population if they look closely at the provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. This is because the new budget law...
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