2020 was a year unlike any other, posing unparalleled challenges to the healthcare industry. If there was ever a time to focus on the importance of population health management, this was it. HealthEC rose to the challenge. And in the process, the company earned accolades from four of the industry’s leading voices: KLAS®, Chilmark, Black...
Making the Economics Work for You
State health officials received a much-needed New Year’s present on January 7, 2021 from CMS. Cash-strapped and resource-drained after nine months of a pandemic, states health officials welcomed the center’s tidings of guidance, funding, and services to better address social determinants of health (SDOH). The 51-page Medicaid Director’s letter from CMS provides leadership and guidance...
Influx of New Medicaid Participants Millions of unemployed Americans are losing employer-sponsored healthcare coverage. Without income or affordable insurance options, a large percentage of the U.S. population now find themselves eligible for Medicaid, many for the first time in their lives. As state Medicaid agencies and managed care organizations (MCOs) shore up systems to welcome...
While the world of physical medicine has seen a steady progression in the development and adoption of value-based care models and payer contracts, behavioral health has been on a slower road to adoption. At the 2020 Open Minds Performance Management Institute earlier this month, payers, providers, and vendors convened to discuss a number of topics...
While the introduction of the proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule (CMS-2393-P) grabbed headlines at last week’s National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) Fall Conference, discussions about social determinants of health could also be considered front-page news.
Remember the baseball movie Field of Dreams?
“Easy” isn’t a term that government healthcare professionals throw around very often. In fact, when you consider the constantly changing dynamics of the healthcare landscape — especially Medicaid — nothing is easy.
Prince George’s County Health Department partnered with HealthEC in 2016 to begin to collect, analyze and use the data from an assessment for social determinants of health (SDoH) to change the department’s approach to population health within their community.
Ahead of the 2018 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference next month in Portland, Oregon, we’re circling back to Washington D.C.
