AAOS Launches a Shoulder & Elbow Registry
The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) launched the Shoulder and Elbow Registry (SER) in October, 2018….
How to Determine if Patient-Reported Outcome Data will Impact CJR Payments at Your Hospital
Guest Blog: This blog is published as a collaboration between Jonathan W. Pearce, CPA, MBA, FHFMA, Founding Principal…
Paul Bruning on What It Will Take to Reach True Transparency in Health Care
A Note From CODE: We are pleased to share this thought leadership guest blog from Paul Bruning, who is…
Winning the CJR Game with Patient-Reported Outcome Data
CJR is a game. PRO data will help you win. My dad advised me that if you play, play…
How to be Successful with Bundled Payments with Dr. Kevin Bozic
Today our system is primarily fee for service, which incentivizes over-utilization based on intensity and volume of…
How NorthBay Healthcare Handles Bundled Payments and Benchmarking
We caught up with NorthBay Healthcare two months after the conference to see how #LeadingVBHC influenced them….
In The News: CMS Delayed Bundled Payment Initiatives, Here’s What You Need to Know
There’s been speculation for months, but now it’s official. CMS issued a final rule to push back mandatory…
In the News: MIPS Exemptions Grow to More Than 800,000
If there’s one thing that’s certain in healthcare, especially right now, it’s that everything is…
4 Things to Know About Submitting Data to MARCQI
CODE has developed Data Export Wizards for data registries like MARCQI to make the process of formatting and submitting…
In the News: CMS Delays Bundled Payments – What it Means for Your Organization
In April of 2016, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated bundled payments as a part of the…
Jonathan Pearce, Data Guru, Talks Cost Data in Healthcare
#LeadingVBHC – We talked to Jonathan Pearce of Singletrack Analytics after his presentation, How Physician and…
Kelly Price of DataGen on How Hospitals Can Succeed in Bundles
#LeadingVBHC – We talked to Kelly Price, Vice President and Chief of Healthcare Data Analytics at DataGen after…
How to Prepare for Value-Based Care in Spine
We’re seeing it everywhere – the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care is here. With the…
Optimize Bundled Payment Programs with Outcomes
Beginning in 2016, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have mandated the use of bundled payments for knee and…
Bundled Payments: What You Need to Know
Episode-based payment, evidence-based case rate, global bundled payment, among others, are all different terms used for…
CAHPS: What are they? Why are they important? What do they mean for you?
What is CAHPS? The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is a multi-year initiative…