Rapid organizational change can be both exciting and unsettling at the same time. HealthInsight has experienced its share of this kind of rapid change in the past few years—so much so that exciting and unsettling seems to describe just about every day around here. We've seen:
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with a neighbor who had just completed a 100-mile race across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He is an adventurer who loves river running, skiing and most any outdoor activity. I enjoy hiking, so we often talk about different trails in Utah.
Katie has been my dental hygienist for the past 20 years. At my most recent "clean and check" visit, she told me about an encounter she had with the health care system.
MACRA. QPP. MIPS. Value-based payment. If you feel lost in the sea of acronyms, reporting requirements and systems-level change, you aren't alone.
Over the past 20 years at HealthInsight, I've had the opportunity to work with health care providers and organizations on root cause analysis to learn from sentinel events, patient harms and other negative, unwanted and unexpected events.
Adopting a new behavior, even one that is good for us, can be difficult. I belong to a gym, and I've come to observe each January with interest.
Numbers. Numbers can tell us many things, including how good or bad something is. When the numbers are low in my bank account, that’s bad. When the numbers are high, that’s good. As a member of the External Quality Review (EQR) team, numbers are part of my daily routine.
Why has the elephant grown so large?
Several months ago, I began receiving a flood of letters and phone messages from health plans, insurance brokers and others, reminding me—as if I needed reminding—that I was about to turn 65. “It’s almost time!” they said. “Congrats in advance!”
It’s been five years since the first Pioneer Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) formed, marking the beginning of Medicare payment reform and now one year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) is up.
