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CMS in 2030 – It’s Within Reach
The impact of the 2030 CMS goal – accountable care for all beneficiaries – is already being absorbed into the traditional medical insurance model.
Medicare Initiative
In less than 6 years a fundamental change will directly affect 55% of Medicare recipients (34.8 million people) as Medicare completes an initiative started in 1983 with the Prospective Payment System (PPS).
This final surge will result in 100% of Medicare recipients receiving care from providers incented to coordinate high-quality patient care and eventually eliminate fee-for-service reimbursement.
In short, the health of the entire American population will be impacted in less time than the typical car buyer considers a new car.
Many patients and providers – the early adopters – already benefit from many available changes that, even now, have collateral impacts on commercial and private payers.
I started my healthcare career in 1983 and I will end my career helping patients and providers finalize this shift to quality-over-cost patient care just as I become eligible for Medicare benefits.
This is a very exciting segment of the healthcare technology market. I post on timely topics that affect each of us as patients, caregivers, providers, and the industry.
Federal Health Innovation
This week my optimism was rewarded by the information shared at the Federal Health Innovation Day hosted by the Nashville Health Care Council and Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management.
2024 Olympics and The Patient
Whether you are personally invested, a caregiver, or professionally engaged staying informed about emerging patient technologies is crucial, and interesting.
Healthcare’s True Frontier
We the Patients are targeted as the value-based patient care frontier – the focus of all efforts and represented in the battle cry “It’s all about the patient.”
Healthcare’s “Bicycle of the Mind”
A fascinating interview with Jobs in 1990 lays some ground work for today’s HealthTech. This study measured the efficiency of locomotion across all species.
HealthTech First Responders
If long Covid does not impact your personal life, use a health information app to look into personally relevant conditions.
What is in your scrolling?
Here are three current patient technology and engagement topics that can improve your scrolling…
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