TKG’s Mallory West and advisor Kavita Patel MD, MS investigate the role of surgical care in the ACO Model for Health Affairs.
The Affordable Care Act supports the growth of ACOs as a potentially powerful model for health care delivery and payment. The model focuses on primary care. However, surgeons and other specialists have a large role to play in caring for ACOs’ patients.
Paint a picture of the U.S. healthcare system and you see a complex network of clinics, hospitals and providers; a confusing array of payers; rising costs and increasing demand for services…and this is just the beginning. To its customers, the U.S. healthcare system can seem daunting; when these customers are sick, the system can seem overwhelming as these customers arguably have the most difficulty in accessing appropriate care. This is where patient navigators step in.
This spring, TKG engaged with students from Georgetown’s Graduate School of Nursing and Health Studies to investigate best practice models of integrated community health system population management programs. Exploration was focused across four areas: Diabetes, Hepatitis-C, Employee Health and Wellness, and Fall Prevention in the Elderly.
TKG advisor Kavita Patel, MD MS highlights new Medicare cuts and their associated risk to coordinated care for The Hill.
In the last few years, growth in healthcare spending has begun to moderate, fueled in part by Medicare’s shift toward new forms of payment based on outcomes and quality. But short-sighted regulations proposed last week would impose dramatic cuts to MA that may stifle this exciting transformation.
TKG’s lead advisor Leonard Fromer, MD highlights the need for a new breed of physician leaders given the development and implementation of new value-based payment models for the American Medical Group Associations’ Group Practice Journal.
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