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Key to medical group’s success: Letting doctors be doctors

Physicians with Privia Medical Group are not called upon to be typists or negotiate contracts. Their role is to listen to patients and provide care.

Sustainability
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Bundled-payment agreements: Why definitions matter

How are care episodes defined? Will they include infections developed after a patient returns home? Essential questions to ask before signing up.

Payment & Delivery Models
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8 provisions that can make or break pay-for-performance contracts

The devil is in the details on how a proposed agreement assigns patients, evaluates physician performance and calculates payment.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Pay-for-performance programs: 4 key factors to consider

If structured right, pay-for-performance contracts can reward physicians for activities they’re already doing. AMA advice can help you steer clear of trouble spots.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Physician-only ACOs lead the way on improving quality and savings

A strong primary care base and a willingness to invest in care coordination infrastructure are the keys to successful physician-only accountable care organizations.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Physician interdependence and independent practices can coexist

Independent physicians can pool financial resources to build their practice infrastructure and create economies of scale under new integration models.

Payment & Delivery Models
Roadsigns pointing to Fee-for-Service and Alternate Payment Models
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Tips to develop new pay models that work for your practice

Medicare is open to new ways of delivering care that improve patient outcomes while lowering payers’ costs. Take this advice on how to participate.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Answers for your MIPS data-collection head scratchers

It’s November. Do you know what your level of readiness is for MIPS data collection? A comprehensive new resource helps answer that and many other questions.

Payment & Delivery Models
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New Medicare shared-savings model friendlier to small practices

CMS pairs participation bonus with less risk to get more small practices into Medicare ACOs. May 31 is the deadline to give notice of intent to apply.

Payment & Delivery Models