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Wisconsin’s BioHealth Industry – Strength Through Collaboration – Michael...
More biohealth collaboration, capital and “wins” are needed to build Wisconsin’s health IT sector, company executives said at a panel Tuesday. Michael Barbouche, CEO of Forward Health Group, a...
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Madison BioHealth Confab: More Data Sharing is a Good Thing
Collaborate, even as you compete, and all will benefit — that was the message keynote speaker Mark Freitas brought to the 2016 Wisconsin BioHealth Summit at the Overture Center last week. Data sharing...
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Dody Fisher on One-on-One Care in the Age of Population Health Management
Forward Health Group’s Chief Clinical Officer, Dody Fisher, MD, MGH, writes about population health management on the individual level – “Not long ago I heard “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” on...
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AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin CEO on Population Health Making a Difference
ARCW CEO Mike Gifford writes about meeting the needs of the HIV community with smart population health management. And trustworthy data from Forward Health Group. “A few months ago, I stood at the...
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Understanding HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Options for Health IT
Forward Health Group’s Chief Technical Officer, Jeff Thomas, MS, CISSP, discusses the ins and outs of remaining HIPAA- compliant in the cloud. “Organizations should always be leery of any vendor...
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Forward Health Group Sponsors California Association of Public Hospitals...
Forward Health Group is sponsoring the upcoming annual conference of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. The conference will be December 7 – 9 at the Langham Hotel in...
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Interview with Forward Health Group CTO Jeff Thomas: The Growing Appeal of...
In an interview published by HIT Infrastructure, Jeff Thomas, Chief Technical Officer of Forward Health Group, talks about the benefits of virtualization and how to ensure organizations choose HIPAA...
View ArticleNew CPC+ Regions Announced
As of August 1st, 2016, the CMS now includes 14 more regions to participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus. Also known as CPC+, this new payment plan is a primary care model that allows for...
View Article15 Measures for Population Health Management
The Institute of Medicine outlined fifteen new core measures it hopes will help the healthcare system achieve better patient outcomes. The intention is to improve transparency and simplify the...
View ArticleFour Options to Ease MACRA Implementation
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 has stakeholders across the country pleading to CMS for more time to implement the legislation’s extensive changes. CMS has listened…...
View ArticleThree Best Practices for Payer-Provider Collaboration
When it comes to payer-provider collaboration, a few common concepts are essential to ensure smooth payer-provider collaboration. Value-based delivery models and the new emphasis on patient-centric...
View ArticleMore Doctors to Retire as MACRA and Value-Based Pay Hit
More physicians are looking to shake things up or get out of the business altogether as new regulations and payment models are in effect. 46% are planning to accelerate their retirement, cut back on...
View ArticleHospitals Must Create Stellar Post-Acute Care Networks
Under Medicare’s voluntary bundled-payment program, system leaders at St. Luke’s University Health Network realized that they could save costs and improve post-acute care outcomes by reducing the list...
View ArticleOverwhelming Data Analytics Effect Value-based Care
The emergence of Value-based Care has left many healthcare providers split between the promises and worries of the program. It aims to improve outcomes and financial returns but poses concern about...
View ArticleCMS Oncology Care Model Is Reforming Payments for Beneficiaries with Cancer
Last year, the Center for Medicare and Medicare Innovation introduced a new model for cancer treatment. The Oncology Care Model (OCM) is aimed at improving the quality of care that cancer patients...
View ArticleMaximizing Value-Based Care
If the health industry ever wants to maximize its patient recovery and profit-earning potential, the switch from fee-for-pay systems to value-based care needs to happen as quickly as possible. Although...
View ArticleOncology Care Models Drive Payers and Providers to Adopt Value-Based Care
There is good news for both cancer patients and health care providers alike; the new Oncology Care Model introduced by CMS will promote value-based care from now on, rather than the old payment...
View ArticleShould I Participate in MIPS as an Individual or Group?
MIPS – Merit-based Incentivized Payment System – If you work with Medicare, this is going to impact how you get paid. MIPS is an excellent way for docs to earn performance-based pay based on the...
View ArticleAIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin – Making a Difference in HIV Outcomes
By Amy Mosher-Garvey, Director Account Management, Forward Health Group One of my great delights working in the account management department at Forward Health Group is when the trajectory of my work...
View Article5 Top-Level Strategic Objectives of CMS’ MACRA Quality Payment Program – Part 2
In our previous post, we looked at the first two strategic objectives of the Quality Payment Program – which consists of MIPS – the Merit-based Incentive Pay System – and APM – Alternative Payment...
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