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In 2021, Beth Israel Lahey Health and BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts began to focus on the idea that doctors and patients should have equal weight in deciding on health-related procedures. It’s a concept known as shared decision making. Research shows that shared decision making supports the notion that if a patient is engaged in their care, they’re more likely to follow through on preventative cancer screenings and improve their own self management of their care.

Despite value-based care dating back many decades, most of our healthcare system is still based on fee-for-service models. Here's an overview of what happened.

Arcadia dug deeper, and what Senior Manager of Customer Insights Dan Sweany found paints a more complicated picture. Here, we’ll delve into the discoveries the Customer Insights team made as they explored 2021 MSSP data, organizing what they found by groups of ICD-10 codes. The result is a list of the most common reasons for winter emergency room visits, and a window into what conditions a value-based care organization or provider network could target for preventive care.

There are three main payment models that fall under value-based care (VBC): Value-Based Care Model #1: Shared Savings The first is a shared savings model. This is the model that most ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) fall into.

In the recent Arcadia webinar we tackle four common challenges — rising costs and tighter margins, patient leakage, labor shortages, and physician burnout and offer some ways organizations can control them.

A value-based care payment system focuses on health outcomes, rather than the quantity of services provided. It puts a heavy emphasis on the overall health of the patient.

Diabetes is a complicated condition, but data-driven interventions can prevent comorbidities and keep patients healthy.

Care management programs are critical tools for helping vulnerable populations, and data analytics are the key to measuring their success efficiency.