More: Population Health

Podcast Preview: "The Murky Ethics of Wearables"

Wearables like Fitbit and Apple Watch may save lives, but also unearth ethical concerns and questions. What information is off-limits? What will happen to the patient-doctor relationship? Is my insurance provider monitoring me? In this podcast, we discuss morality and technology with professor Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D.!

What Can Independent Providers Learn from Health Centers?

Health centers are on the frontier of population health strategies and addressing the social determinants of health. What benefits are patients and providers seeing from these initiatives? And what can independent providers learn from health centers’ model?

Office Managers, Help Us Help You Transition to Population Health

An inforMD by Privia blog series, “Population Health & You,” brought to you by Rick Foerster (VP, Population Health, Privia Health) The system of reimbursement is slowly but surely shifting away from fee-for-service and closer to value-based care, making preventative medicine with its low-cost and high-quality care critical to long-term financial success for independent physicians. …

Childhood Depression Is on the Rise, Pediatricians Develop Strategies

Between 2010 and 2015, the number of teens exhibiting symptoms of depression surged 31 percent, teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent, and suicide among 13 to 18 year-olds jumped 31 percent. The rise in depression and suicide among teens isn’t just making national headlines, it’s also finding its way into pop culture. Netflix’s hit show …

Medicare Advantage: What it Means for Your Independent Practice

Medicare Advantage (MA) has proven to provide better patient outcomes and can be an opportunity for independent physicians interested in participating in value-based programs. But let’s be honest, the program can be confusing. What is MA, really? How are RAF scores determined? What is the benefit of a risk-sharing program?   Medicare Advantage in Simple …

Understanding the Volume to Value Transition

By now, you’ve heard about the transition from volume to value in healthcare, but what does it really mean? In this blog, I’ll attempt to explain it in layman’s terms. Value-based Care and the Connection with Population Health Simply put, “value” is defined as better quality for lower cost; an easy concept to grasp, but …

Small Business Ownership and Private Practice: Alike, yet Different

Growing up the son of grocers taught me a lot about running a small business. In my family’s Washington, D.C. mom-and-pop convenience store, generating revenue was usually a straightforward endeavor. I started stocking shelves at the age of five. By my late teens, I was managing the store. I quickly learned that if the distributor …

Cockroaches and Patient Records

CMS recently issued a mandate requiring Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians to prove that they are not restricting the sharing of patient data. Does this signal the death of the fax machine, American healthcare’s cockroach? I recently listened to an interesting podcast by Vox’s Sarah Kliff that calls faxes the “cockroaches of healthcare.” …

The Rundown | Week of 12.4.2017

Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. U.S. Healthcare Spending Growth Slows According to a new Reuters report, growth in healthcare spending slowed in 2016 due to a slower health insurance enrollment growth. Healthcare spending grew 4.3% in 2016, to a total of $3.3 trillion dollars, compared to 5.8% growth in 2015. Out-of-pocket …

Peak Practice Performance: Finance

Has your cash flow weakened over the last few quarters?  As we approach the holidays and the end of the year, many practices notice a decline in revenues. Even if your cash flows are good, you may be wondering how your practice can maintain a steady stream of cash month over month. In this Peak Practice Performance …

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