Kristen McGovern on Value-Based Care in Provider Magazine
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 […]
Op-ed: Independent medicine is alive and well — if you know where to look
First published by Kristen McGovern in Medical Economics The decline in physician practice ownership only tells part of the story. Private practice shuts its doors after 30 years. Health care options shrink in rural communities across the country. Dr. Smith retires to spend more time with family. These are just a few examples of headlines […]
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 […]
