Jon Hart

Meaningful, positive relationship is a key component to high value health care. We sometimes forget that help…

The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, through their Innovation Center (CMMI) announced a new ACO…

Rural hospitals are still closing at an alarming rate. While the CMS Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) program o…

If you're new to Value-based Healthcare, first of all, Wake Up! Where have you been? Just kidding. There a…

Lots of organizations - physician practices, health systems, VBC Enablement companies - talk, even brag about…

As a physician, there's a story in the Christian tradition that has intrigued me for a long time. To me, it s…

Prior authorization, the way it's been done for the past 60 years by health insurance payors, has taken a lot…

Here’s a way to jump-start how you manage care in Value-based Care: Start in the Red Zone.

As with all the other activities already discussed in this series, ACP has bonus good news features – patient…

In this entry we’ll look at how closure of HEDIS® measures not only helps the patient but benefits the practi…

The activities to be discussed can motivate the front-line doc from a production perspective while benefiting…

The first activities we’ll explore will be the combinations of Annual Wellness visit for Medicare (AWV), Annu…

A misconception exists that physicians must choose between practicing fee-for-service (FFS) medicine and Valu…

If you view healthier patients as a destructive threat to the demand for your healthcare services, you're pro…

A day of reckoning is coming (cue ominous music). It's more than risk coding in value-based care. Medical exp…

Without clearly describing and identifying what you are aiming for in a process or project, you will not know…

I recently had the honor and pleasure of sitting in on a broadcasted conversation with Faisel Syed, MD on the…

The controversy of who can be called "doctor" rages on. This can serve as more of a distraction from improvin…

Healthcare delivery in rural areas will not be solved by the current trends in the industry. Mergers/acquisit…

Private equity investment and involvement in healthcare has been linked to higher prices and worse outcomes. …

Organizations skilled at running Medicare Advantage Plans signed on to CMS's ACO Reach Program, but now many …

Emergency Department use as primary care or urgent care is an area of waste in US healthcare leading to high …

There is reason for hope in considering Kaiser's acquisition of Geisinger to create Risant Health - Kaiser's …