Reduction in cost of care in patients with IBD in a large community practice using a proactive patient engagement platform
IBD constitutes a diverse and progressive spectrum of chronic illnesses, presenting formidable management challenges for both patients and healthcare providers. Due to the inherent unpredictability of disease progression, proactive monitoring strategies…
Reduction in Utilization In Patients with IBD Enrolled in a Statewide Value-Based Care Program Using a Proactive Patient Engagement Model
IBD constitutes a diverse and progressive spectrum of chronic illnesses, presenting formidable management challenges for both patients and healthcare providers. Due to the inherent unpredictability of disease progression, proactive monitoring strategies…
The Importance Of Patient Engagement In The Management Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
IBD constitutes a diverse and progressive spectrum of chronic illnesses, presenting formidable management challenges for both patients and healthcare providers. Due to the inherent unpredictability of disease progression, proactive monitoring strategies…
The Impact of Cascading Accountability on Specialty Practices: Time For a Nested Solution
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) was created by the Affordable Care Act to test new payment and delivery models that would lower spending while maintaining or improving patient care.1 As enacted, the Affordable Care Act…
Reporting of Adenoma Detection by Segment: A Proposed New Quality Metric for Colonoscopy
The adenoma detection rate (ADR), is a key quality metric for colonoscopy, but it might fail to measure differences in adenoma detection in different parts of the colon. Because many post-colonoscopy cancers arise in the proximal colon, differences in…
Mo1057: Mental Health Disorders are Associated with Increased Cost in IBD Patients – Use of Retrospective Claims Data and Phq-2 Can Identify High-risk High-Cost Populations of IBD
Mental Health Disorders (MHD) are common comorbidities in patients with IBD. The cost of IBD in the presence of a history of a MHD has been shown to be 38% higher[i] when one of these comorbidities is present1 . IBD Patients with a history of MHD can be…
Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A): A Decision-Based Case Study
In collaboration with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working to introduce innovative episode-based payment bundles to the market, working to drive an optimal…
Su1785 — ADR By Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Patients Under 50 in Average-risk Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening
Background: There is growing concern about the increase in CRC in men and women age 40 to 49 years. Although the cause of this increase is uncertain, there appears to be a birth cohort effect. We hypothesize that since CRC rates have increased in this…
