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CODE Technology + OAM = A Match Made in Michigan
CODE Technology + OAM = A Match Made in Michigan Proving its strong commitment to delivering the best patient experience...
What is the Minnesota Community Measures Registry?
What is the Minnesota Community Measures Registry? “You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” That’s the main theme behind The...
In The News: The Joint Commission Announces New Performance Measures for THKR-Certified Programs
The Total Joint Commission has teamed up with a Technical Advisory Panel to select four new performance measures for advanced certification in THA and TKA procedures.
Articulating Value in Value-Based Payment Opportunities
Collecting and storing PRO data for use in assessing performance, identifying best practices and negotiating value-based payment arrangements is an activity with a very high ROI.
How to be Successful with Bundled Payments with Dr. Kevin Bozic
Today our system is primarily fee for service, which incentivizes over-utilization based on intensity and volume of services. Conversely, the full-risk, or global, capitation model, incentivizes under-treatment. “Where we need to be,” says Bozic, “is the epicenter of value.
Orthopedic Payment Models: MIPS, APMs, Bundles, and More
A lot has been going on in Washington in the first half of 2017. Despite the uncertainty of the future of our healthcare system, there’s one thing the majority of orthopedic thought leaders agree on: value-based care is here to stay.
Holy MACRA! CMS Proposes New Rule to Exclude 134K Clinicians from MIPS Participation
CMS has proposed changes to exclude physician practices from MACRA participation and quality reporting that have either less than $90,000 in Medicare revenue or fewer than 200 Medicare patients per year.
The argument against mandatory bundled payments: does it hold up?
Voluntary vs. Mandatory? What will happen in the near future? Oh, bundled payments. In a fee-for-service model, a hospital is...
Paul Bruning on Exploring the Real Value of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Value-based healthcare is a trending concept, but can sometimes be confusing when used interchangeably with quality. These are often expressed as meaning the same thing, yet each is very different.
How to Improve Patient Experience with Patient-Reported Outcomes
How do PRO surveys enable practices to influence word-of-mouth marketing and a positive patient experience? Find out in the latest Professor’s Corner.
Easily Submit Data to MARCQI
with CODE Technology
Participation in MARCQI (Michigan Arthroplasty Registry Collaborative Quality Initiative) is a requirement of the Blue Distinction Center (BDC) of Excellence for Knee and Hip surgery. If you want to submit data to MARCQI, the process may be very time consuming – every survey must be entered one question at a time noting the score and patient information. Some CODE clients have reported this is a painstaking process and feels like it takes forever to complete the process for eligible patients.
SNEAK PEEK: This Year’s Perioperative Care Boot Camp
What we love about this conference is it’s designed to bring all the leaders in a patient’s care team together.