Topic in Focus: Value-based Care

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How physicians are rethinking care delivery

The way care is delivered can have drastic effects on patients’ health, even in the treatment of the same illness. One physician shares her experience in the differences between fee-for-service and value-based care, and how these differences have directly affected her patients’ health outcomes.

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Medicare quality reports to compare doctors, impact payments

Physicians should look for their confidential Medicare feedback reports next month. They will detail how the cost and quality of care physicians provided to their Medicare patients last year compares to that of other physicians.

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How care delivery and payment reform really works

Physician innovators and leaders shared their real-world payment reform experiences during a Monday education session presented by members of the AMA Innovators Committee during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting.

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New care model focuses on patients at risk of hospitalization

A new model of care delivery aimed at improving care for patients most at risk of being hospitalized is being assessed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation based on its costs and outcomes. Called the Comprehensive Care Physician model, this care delivery system is intended to give at-risk patients access to a physician who will care for them in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

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Model tests comprehensive care physicians and high-risk patients

A new idea being tested at the University of Chicago is targeting high-risk patients with comprehensive care physicians. Physicians are assigned patients identified as being at high risk for hospitalization and follow them through inpatient, outpatient and home care settings

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What physicians need for practice transformation: Doctors to CMS

Assisting physicians in adopting new models of care and payment that will enhance quality and lower costs is the aim of a recent request for information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Physician groups should register now to avoid PQRS penalty

Physicians who practice in a group can register for the 2014 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Group Practice Reporting Option (GPRO) now through Sept. 30. Physicians who do not participate in PQRS this year will be hit with a 2 percent payment penalty in 2016. 

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Physicians explain how to divvy payments in new models of care

Adopting care delivery reforms in your practice can help you achieve better physician-led, patient-centered care and increase your professional satisfaction. New resources from the AMA can help guide you through an appropriate payment system for new models of care.

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