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Jeanne Cohen and Motive Medical Intelligence on Physician-Level Precision in Value-Based Care

Jason Free — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:11:12 +0000

As the healthcare industry recalibrates its ambitions for value-based care (VBC), one reality has grown increasingly difficult to ignore: aggregate data isn't enough. Executives and clinical leaders charged with reducing costs and improving outcomes have long relied on population-level metrics and episode-based models to guide transformation. But when avoidable variation in care still accounts for hundreds of billions in waste, a shift in measurement strategy becomes essential.

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Floating Table Upgrade Advances Imaging Throughput

Jason Free — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:12:43 +0000

Radiology departments continue to face mounting volume, staffing constraints, and budget pressure. A six-way floating table now integrated into the Carestream Horizon X-ray System targets those challenges by improving patient positioning, reducing technologist effort, and limiting motion artefacts that degrade diagnostic clarity.

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Value-Based Care Is Finally Coming for Specialists

Jason Free — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:53:18 +0000

For over a decade, Medicare's transition toward value-based reimbursement has primarily revolved around primary care physicians, care coordination infrastructure, and population health strategy. Models like the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and ACO REACH have restructured incentives across thousands of organizations, but have left many high-volume specialists on the periphery.

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Medicare’s Value-Based Transition Is at Risk Without Congressional Action, Say 550+ Healthcare Groups

Jason Free — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:16:25 +0000

More than 550 accountable care organizations, physician practices, hospitals, and healthcare stakeholders have delivered a clear and urgent message to congressional leaders: sustain Medicare’s transition to advanced alternative payment models (APMs) or risk derailing a decade’s worth of progress in value-based care.

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MIPS and the Fantasy of Value-Based Simplicity

Jason Free — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:36:01 +0000

The promise of MACRA's Quality Payment Program was to usher in a more rational, outcomes-focused Medicare reimbursement model. In practice, the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) has evolved into a sprawling bureaucracy that consumes far more clinical time than it saves and undermines the very value-based principles it claims to champion. The Medical Group Management Association’s recent submission to the Office of Management and Budget confirms what many front-line administrators already know: MIPS, as it stands, is unworkable, especially for small to mid-sized practices that lack the informatics infrastructure of large health systems (MGMA 2023 Regulatory Burden Report).

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Redefining Value-Based Care Through Medicaid-Centered Innovation: Q&A with Dr. Sherri Onyiego

Jason Free — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:09:49 +0000

In the evolving landscape of healthcare reform, few terms are as widely used—and as inconsistently defined—as Value-Based Care (VBC). What began as a promising alternative to fee-for-service models has since splintered into a multitude of interpretations and approaches, leaving many providers and health systems questioning what “value” really means—and how to deliver it.

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CMS Innovation Center Announces Early Termination of Key Payment Models

Jason Free — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:29:25 +0000

The CMS Innovation Center has announced a significant overhaul of its alternative payment models, signaling what many see as a recalibration of its approach to value-based care.

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Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Calendar Year 2025 Model Participation

Jason Free — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:25:23 +0000

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 participants in the Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model.

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Arcadia Acquires CareJourney to Enable High-Performing Networks and Value-Based Care Success

Jason Free — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:11:36 +0000

Arcadia, a data platform for healthcare, announced the acquisition of CareJourney, a preeminent provider of clinically relevant healthcare data and AI-powered analytics and insights.

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64 Federally Qualified Health Centers Partner with Medical Home Network To Transition to Medicare Value-Based Care

Jason Free — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:45:58 +0000

Medical Home Network (MHN), a nationally recognized not-for-profit organization transforming care in the safety net, is partnering this year with 64 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in seven states to participate in two CMS value-based programs: ACO REACH and MSSP.

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