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Elevating the Beneficiary Perspective: Recommendations on How the CMS Innovation Center Can Enhance Beneficiary Engagement

Several organizations convened by Leavitt Partners met to discuss ways to support the CMS Innovation Center’s goals that further elevate the beneficiary perspective. The organizations provided their feedback on opportunities to help ensure that the Innovation Center’s objectives were met and that the agency efforts were accountable to stakeholders and transparent in their execution. These … Read more

New Report: Analyzing the Expanded Landscape of Value-Based Entities – Implications and Opportunities of Enablers for the CMS Innovation Center and the Broader Value Movement

New Report Analyzes the Expanding Landscape of Value-Based Entities     Research from HMA and LP VBP experts segments and sizes the growing enabler market, considering benefits and risks, and proposing guiding principles and policy recommendations for the CMS Innovation Center A new in-depth HMA report analyzes the landscape of emerging value-based entities and the implications … Read more

CMS Targets Value-Based Purchasing, Drug Costs to Reduce Spending

A RevCycleIntelligence article entitled “CMS Targets Value-Based Purchasing, Drug Costs to Reduce Spending” references the Leavitt Partners “Accountable Care Organizations and Risk-Based Payment Arrangements: Strong Preference for Upside-Only Contracts” white paper. The article states, “About 61 percent of ACO contracts contain only upside financial risk, meaning organizations do not have to repay financial losses, a … Read more

Digital Health Leader Joins Leavitt Partners

Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, is pleased to announce that Mark Marciante has joined the company’s digital health team of experts. He will be a director located in the company’s Washington, D.C., office. Marciante has extensive experience in digital health, successfully driving transformative initiatives for healthcare payers over the past decade. As director of engineering … Read more

New Task Force Endorses Legislation to Save Rare Disease Treatments 

The Save Rare Treatments Task Force, a new multi-sector public policy and advocacy collaboration convened by Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, publicly launched this week and today released a letter of support for recently introduced, bipartisan, bicameral legislation. The Task Force is comprised of organizations representing persons living with rare diseases, biopharmaceutical innovators, and other … Read more

CARIN Alliance and HHS Release Digital Identity Federation Report about their Test Proof of Concept

Washington, D.C., March 22, 2023 — The CARIN Alliance, a multi-sector collaborative of healthcare and other stakeholders working to advance the consumer-directed exchange of health information released a report today that lays the foundation for how individuals can voluntarily digital identity proof themselves once and use that same digital credential with multiple data holders of … Read more

The Role of ACOs in Advancing Health Equity: A Comparison Between MSSP and ACO REACH

CMS’s recent integration of health equity into its new and existing value-based payment (VBP) programs (as outlined below) signals a strong commitment to equitable care delivery. We expect health equity to be incorporated into additional federal programs and for private payers to follow CMS’s example in designing their own plans for managing the diverse needs … Read more

The CARIN Alliance Announces Code of Conduct Accreditation Program with EHNAC

Consumer health app developers are finding ways to help consumers and their physicians make better use of their health data. These apps can now get accredited for their compliance with best practices in managing personal health information, an important step towards building trust that consumers’ health data will be protected as it is moved more … Read more

Leavitt Partners Insight Launches New Tool to Help Hospitals Rapidly Identify Resources and Capacity-Increasing Interventions to Enhance Their Operational Response to COVID-19

Salt Lake City, April 13, 2020 –Today, Leavitt Partners Insight (LPI), provider of Torch Insight™, launched the COVID-19 Burden Index to aid U.S. health care providers and public health officials in tracking and measuring the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tool estimates, in near-real-time, the percent of normal hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) … Read more

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