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  9 Key Facts about BPCI Advanced

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Wednesday, January 10, 2018

  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation released the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced Request for Applications on Tuesday January 9, 2018. The initiative aims to build upon previous bundled payment programs and improve the quality of patient care for Medicare beneficiaries while reducing healthcare costs. Program highlights are below.

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  The Dangerous Myth of Patient Responsibility: Part 1

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Thursday, May 4, 2017

  At a recent conference, I presented care redesign and care management strategies we implement in our Maternity Care Home Model for Medicaid patients. This model addresses all aspects of women's health, including behavioral health, during the perinatal period, using a patient-centered and strengths-based approach. During the question and answer period, our model was criticized by an audience member for not addressing “patient responsibility.”

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  The Minimalist Approach to Healthcare

  posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2017

  Minimalism in healthcare and value-based care go hand in hand as both focus on providing the highest value of services to patients. Effectively this results in improved quality of care, reduced costs, and increased patient satisfaction. Forward thinking physicians and organizations are leading the transition to a more minimalistic approach amidst a chaotic and overwhelming healthcare system.

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  Value-Based Care is About Improving, Not Denying Care

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, February 21, 2017

  Many of these alternative payments, including bundled payments, are referred to as “value-based.” Value-based care, put simply, is care that prioritizes good health outcomes. Value-based payments reward these good health outcomes, while the more prevalent fee-for-service payments, whether intentionally or not, reward volume of services performed.

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  Empowering Patient Responsibility: Part 2

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

  Our previous post, “The Dangerous Myth of Patient Responsibility,” discussed patient responsibility through the lens of a missed healthcare visit and the social inequities that can create barriers to accessing healthcare. Two perspectives, by a patient and provider, demonstrated how a provider may make an assumption that a patient who repeatedly misses her appointments is irresponsible and apathetic, when the reality is the patient relies on undependable public transit and does not have enough m