Maintaining a high hospital star rating from Medicare has become a priority for healthcare organizations, for a number of good reasons. But what are Medicare star ratings for hospitals, exactly, and how do higher ranks benefit providers? And how can...
For most healthcare providers today, the treatment of chronic conditions is a key area of focus, as well as a major challenge. As defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Chronic Care Management (CCM) is a model of patient care that leverages...
Since 2015, Chronic Care Management (CCM) has been officially recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a reimbursable model for treating patients with chronic conditions outside of the clinical office setting. In the years since, some of...
Thanks to its ability to drive better outcomes, cut costs and improve the patient experience all at once, population health management has grown sharply in utilization in recent years. And telehealth technology like remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become the...
Year after year, remote patient monitoring (RPM) has grown more common throughout the healthcare industry — and more necessary for meeting patient care goals, too. Often thought of as a standalone program for the at-home treatment of patients with chronic illness,...
One of the newest models of care reimbursed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), principal care management (PCM) was first put in place in 2020. But it was completely overhauled in 2022, with four new principal care management CPT® Codes...
