Kristen McGovern on Value-Based Care in Provider
Sirona Strategies Partner Kristen McGovern offered her insights in Provider Magazine’s Spring Issue addressing the need for value-based care models to cover older adults. She shared, “the largest gap remaining is the permanent availability of an accountable care model for high-needs beneficiaries in long term care settings, as I-SNPs and Medicare Advantage will not be […]
Telehealth: An Important Tool in Achieving the Goals of the ACO Program and Why Restrictions Should Be Lifted in Final ACO Rule
In the recently released proposed rule related to the accountable care organization (ACO) program1 (or Medicare Shared Savings Program, as it is formally known), the CMS contemplated allowing ACOs to utilize and be reimbursed for an important tool in better coordinating care, engaging patients, delivering services efficiently, and reducing costs: telehealth. Congress adopted the ACO […]
