healthhistory.com Brings Good News to Healthcare For 2021
healthhistory.com Brings Good News to Healthcare For 2021 Medicare has expanded 4-year health history data-sharing to healthcare providers with a patient treatment-related purpose with no requirement of participation in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or other value-based care program. Medicaid and Medicare Advantage health history will be released by July 2021.
healthhistory.com is the latest data point of care solution from Health Endeavors, a Medicare approved vendor and innovator of data solutions, used by leading health organizations since 2010 and is available to help healthcare providers integrate these datasets at the point of care. “We are pleased to bring our solutions, expertise, and capabilities to assist Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage in their transition to data-sharing in the EHR. healthhistory.com is available in both SAAS enterprise and single installation versions,” said Kris Gates,
Enrolling in such a CMS-sponsored innovation model now has an added benefit: a new Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor.
This is the fourth article in a series analyzing recent updates to the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute and their effects on health care providers.
In its mission to reward value over volume, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Center develops and tests novel payment and service delivery models for patient care. On November 20, 2020, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) adopted regulations creating two AKS safe harbors related to CMS-sponsored models (the New AKS Regulations) recognizing the importance of such models.
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TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Collaborative Health Systems (CHS) announced today that it helped Medicare healthcare providers generate $389 million in total savings through Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models since 2012, according to figures released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Performance year 2019 marks the eighth consecutive year that CHS – one of the largest Medicare ACO sponsors in the country – generated savings to Medicare.
CHS helps healthcare providers serving the Medicare population organize and improve the quality, cost, and experience for Medicare beneficiaries through value-based models such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) – including the redesigned model, Pathways to Suc
Seema Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
This article was coauthored with Alexandra Mugge, deputy chief health informatics officer at CMS, and Shannon Sartin, chief technology officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
In 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the White House Office of American Innovation, publicly announced our commitment to ensuring that patients would have access to their healthcare data wherever and whenever they need it, and we commenced on a journey to break down the barriers that keep critical patient health information locked in digital silos.