HealthIT Answers December 29, 2021
By Tim Gronniger, CEO and President, Caravan Health
By the end of the decade, all Medicare beneficiaries are expected to be in accountable care or other total cost of care arrangements, per a CMS Innovation Center whitepaper published earlier this year. The days of traditional fee-for-service – in which providers are paid by volume of services – are coming to an end. Coupled with the extreme stress on health systems from the COVID-19 pandemic, providers have had to find or build population health management systems that make health care transformation manageable.
Providers are transforming care delivery to manage patient costs and care quality through advancing population health. This goes beyond delivering excellent care, it means employing the best tools to...