Inflight Health Blog

The ultimate goal of any managed care model (e.g., HMO, PPO, POS, PCMH, ACO, etc.) is to improve the health of the population, enhance the experience and outcomes of the patient, and reduce per capita costs of care. All of these models have at least three things in...

Despite efforts and trends to slow the growth of U.S. national health expenditures, we have just 7 years until we experience insolvency in the Medicare Part A trust fund, otherwise known as the Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund. This is according to the 2019 Annual...

The term “vulnerable” keeps popping up in the context of population health management. More and more, I am seeing marketing around solutions that identify vulnerable populations and how they are using these factors to manage patients more effectively Through some...

A primary objective of value-based care is to increase provider accountability in delivering better health outcomes. This is driven out through Alternative Payment Models (APMs) such as capitation, gainsharing, and bundled payment arrangements. As a provider, one of...

Are accountable care organizations failing to help the high-risk and vulnerable populations it was intended to serve? Are providers hesitating to shift their most vulnerable patients to payment models tied to quality and performance?  Are we de incentivizing providers...

CMS announced June 20th, 2018 that they will be holding their first ever developer conference for the Blue Button 2.0 initiative.  The conference is to be held August 13, 2018, in Washington D.C. “The inaugural Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference will bring together...

So you’re considering BPCI-Advanced, eh? Which means you’re most likely up to your eyeballs in data right now trying to figure out your positioning.  Over the next 1 month and 15 days, you have some big decisions to make; “Which episode initiators are you going to...

Recently, our team attended the 2018 National ACO, Bundled Payments, and MACRA Summit in Washington D.C. Over the course of three days we heard from some of the industry’s top thought leaders from both the public and private sectors; to include members from the Office...

You’ve received notice that you're going to be audited by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for HIPAA privacy and security compliance.  First thing you need to do… don’t panic! Companies survive HIPAA audits all the time. In fact, about 31% of all audits result in no...