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Diabetes Management in the Elderly Population: How CCM and RPM Help American Patients Stay on Track
The Growing Challenge of Diabetes in Elderly Americans The diabetes epidemic has reached alarming proportions among elderly Americans, creating an urgent need for innovative care...
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
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Earn from Medicare’s Chronic Care Management Program! CCM made simple!
Chronic Care Management Services are delivered to Medicare beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions with a goal of improving health and quality of care for high-need patients. As population ages, FQHCs, RHCs, ACOs, Hospitals, individual practitioners, etc. face the daunting challenge of improving quality of care for chronically ill patients while containing costs. The
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
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Understanding the scope of Chronic Care Management and what is required to make it profitable
Approximately 71% of the total healthcare spend in the United States is associated with care for Americans with more than one chronic condition. Among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, people with multiple chronic conditions account for 93% of total Medicare spending. It is said that a large percentage of these expenses are associated with acute care and
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
Product Marketing
Learn how the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming healthcare with technology
The COVID-19 pandemic and its global sweep is scaling exponentially across the globe. We are witnessing that health systems across some of the COVID-19 affected countries are stretching beyond their ability to handle this pandemic. The affected countries have geared up and are urgently scaling-up aggressive measures to tackle the disease and combat COVID-19. Unfortunately,
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
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What’s New with CCM? Medicare Reimbursement 2020 Code Changes Explained!
First, let’s have a quick look at what were the codes in 2019. Beginning January 1, 2019, the CCM codes were as below CPT 99490 (Non-complex) Chronic care management services, at least 20 minutes of clinical staff time directed by a physician or other qualified healthcare professional, per calendar month. CPT 99491 Chronic care management
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
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It’s time to stop faxing referrals – Why are we still faxing patient referrals?
One out of every three patients is referred to a specialist each year. These referrals are sent to specialists, imaging centers, etc., through multiple channels like phone calls, fax, emails, website forms, etc., and fax is the most commonly used channel. Despite the array of digital patient referral management software available in the market, health
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
Product Marketing
Revenue lost due to patient leakage in hospitals and health systems
The last few years have been a tumultuous time for hospitals and health systems due to the high patient leakage rate. Even today, patient leakage is a key concern and remains an unsolved challenge in many of the health systems. Health systems are losing more than 20% revenue due to inefficient organizational referral processes, as
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
Product Marketing
Transform Your Care Practice With A Streamlined Patient Referral Process
It is imperative to transform your care practice to deliver value-based care. Promoting and exploring technologies for streamlining various processes is the way forward for improved care quality and care coordination. One such process that requires a transformation in care practices is the patient referral process which is still a tedious, fragmented, and time-consuming task
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
Product Marketing
The Role of Referral Management in Value-Based Health Care
What is Value-Based Care? Value-Based Care is a care delivery model in which healthcare providers are paid based on the health outcomes of the patient. Value-based is a quality-based care model that drives “better health for all” and benefits the community, providers, and payers as a whole. Value-based care helps healthcare providers by helping patients
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
Product Marketing
Advantages FQHCs Gain From A Patient Referral Management Solution
Community health centers or federally qualified health centers provide critical primary care services to tens of millions of people every year. Their role in healthcare makes them necessary access points for patients coming into the vaster healthcare system. Let us see how these organizations use patient referral management systems to leverage their role as a
Vignesh Eswaramoorthy
Product Marketing
Five Ways To Reduce Patient Referral Leakage In Hospitals And Health Systems
Hospitals and health systems know that referrals are critical for their business, and failing to manage referrals efficiently can result in loss of revenue. Healthcare providers are losing more than 20% of revenue to patients going out-of-network for care. Most of these hospitals and health systems do not know why and where referral leakage occurs.