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Have you heard about the #texting update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services? This new guidance allows providers at hospitals and critical access hospitals to use secure texting platforms to transmit patient orders. Read more on our blog and sign up for our March 7 roundtable discussion as we explore this topic further: https://bit.ly/48lzcjT

Value-based care priorities are becoming more accessible within a fee-for-service payment framework. Earlier this month, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. Town Hall Ventures is excited to dive into what this means for the future of value-based care. Andy Slavitt and Andie Steinberg explore how the new initiatives can benefit your practice, improve patient outcomes, and drive innovation in healthcare. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eKpC6Nuv

It's crucial to pay attention to the signals behind the latest healthcare policy efforts by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule is paving the way for a more inclusive and effective healthcare system. Check out our piece below - Andie Steinberg and I dive into new opportunities and implications for physicians, innovators, founders, and, most importantly, patients.

Check it out: Nick Hut highlighted in a Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) piece some key moments from our webinar last month with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials and other health leaders. Learn more about their recently proposed changes for Medicare Part B payment: https://lnkd.in/e7HNaJbU

How many Medicare patients are on Remote Patient Monitoring? In case you didn't know, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes a Part B HCPCS-level summary file every September [1]. Since it's September, we just loaded the latest data, which is from 2022. The chart below shows all the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) CPT codes: 99453/4/7/8 by year. Many RPM start-ups have been formed during those years, and I became curious about how many patients were on RPM then. One easy way to track the number of RPM patients is to track 99453—the onboarding code. This onboarding code is used only once per patient (in theory), so the sum of these codes would approximate the total number of RPM patients. 2019: 20,640 2020: 90,149 2021: 123,476 2022: 164,634 So, by the end of 2022, approximately 398,899 patients have tried RPM while on Medicare. Considering 35+M Medicare FFS members, 400K members seem weirdly small, barely above 1%. I am curious how many patients have tried RPM so far in 2024. Do you think it reached at least 2% [1] https://lnkd.in/eCTenNdJ #remotepatientmonitoring #healthcaredata #opendata #virtualcare #telehealth

See how you can use the Part B National Summary file to understand the market!

Check out the Health Care Transformation Task Force's resource on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ACO Primary Care Flex Model. The resource is intended to provide a helpful overview of the new model breaking down:  ▶ Model Goals   ▶ Eligibility & Participation  ▶ Financial Methodology    ▶ Health Equity   ▶ Quality Measurement  Read the resource here: https://lnkd.in/eVBvcbdq    👉 This is the newest resource in a collection of briefers on policies and CMMI models that amplify how value-based payment is changing our health care system for the better. Check out the collection here: https://lnkd.in/edTbnqr4 

Delegating care management for Managed Medicaid can lead to improved patient outcomes and cost savings. By entrusting care management and administrative functions to experts, practices and providers can enhance whole-person care and increase capacity. Discover the benefits of delegating care management in our latest article:

Check out our latest insight article on 340B Report! Learn about the shifting focus to value-based outcomes and what this means for the future of patient care.

A New Era for Value-Based Care: Driving Better Outcomes Through Innovation and Patient-Centered Care - https://lnkd.in/e7dRHvkC SPONSORED CONTENT In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center set a bold new strategy for healthcare delivery which aims to have all or the majority of patients in value-based care [...] #340B