“DELIVERING VALUE-BASED TRANSFORMATION IN PRIMARY CARE”-Government incentive, Solution by title, Deception between the lines…! Healthcare in America is in turmoil. Medical practice is taking another turn on a steep winding road paved with the political cobblestone by the hands of bureaucrats who repeatedly fail to see the concept of health…

As healthcare administrations worldwide continue to transition toward value-based physician reimbursement models, the attention on the significance of social determinants of health and disease is becoming more focused. The social determinants of health are the societal and economic circumstances that impact individual and group differences in health status. They are…

The conflict of interest fueled by the Populist Attitude Healthcare is in a deep conflict within itself. It merely suffers the consequence of tug-of-war between its business remedy at one end and the practice of medicine at the other. Medicine and Healthcare at large have become the epitome of 21-st century socioeconomic and humanistic ordeal. And such a tribulation…

Factors Playing in Quality of Medical Care — Quality is a pointer of worthiness. High-Quality medical care is an indicator held by the patients; how it is delivered to patients defines their endorsement. That is why exploring and tallying a health service is founded on user perceptions, hence critical to the continual advancement of healthcare delivery services. For…

The problem with most modern approaches to understanding healthcare problems in the U.S. is that one only looks to find the big solutions and forgets to focus on the basics. What happens is similar to the elephant in the darkroom analogy — different people focus on various aspects and come…

An uneven fad from Fee-for-Service Reimbursement to Value-Based Compensation — The concerns for human existence and health have reached back centuries. Since the ancient Greek epoch, when only the elite and the privileged enjoyed personal cleanliness and sanitation, the concept of public health has been growing. It is one of the most critical challenges for almost every community. Every era…

Shaping our Healthcare from Opportunity to Value-based delivery model requires an effort rooted in Individual Realms — Winston S. Churchill once said: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Opportunity plays a vital role in the American dream, and the option, in itself, comes from the founding principles of the nation. These principles American Constitution granted its constituents…

The Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records and value-based Reimbursement demands unswerving Human Participation — According to the American medical association report, only 49.1% of its 3,500 national survey respondents worked in private practice as of fall 2020, dropping from the 54% reported in 2018. It is the most significant shift the AMA has observed since 2012. It’s also the first time the proportion has…

A closer look into the significance of Value-based Reimbursement, Physician Documentation, and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in 2021 For decades the realm of healthcare has been moving from a patient-centered personalized medical service to a corporate-based population health model. Not too many years ago, the healthcare administrators were contemplating a…

A closer look at the Paradoxical upshot of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on Physician Practice Efficiency Value-based or merit-based reimbursement is the payment model for medical services that are gradually replacing the conventional fee-for-service standard for payers and healthcare companies. …

A good understanding of value is essential to determine the quality of care delivered. Healthcare is a tool and means for providing medical service by the physician to a patient. But what is value, and how is it perceived? A recent post by Harvard Business Review stated that we wouldn’t…

A Chronological look at the history of Currency and the emergence of Fiat Money — This article was originally published in Data Driven Investor Money is a verifiable document commonly admitted as payment for goods and services or repayment of debts. It functions as a standard of exchange, a unit of account, a reserve of value, and seldom a deferred payment standard. For the economist…

Some believe Population Health Management and Value-based care are about making careful choices, but Physicians are not in the business of Rationing. — The concept of value-based reimbursement or merit-based payment towards a medical service or procedure has become healthcare policymakers' focus for the past decade. It is supposedly meant to maintain high-quality medical assistance to patients while reducing wasteful spending. But so far, half-decade into its implementation, the concept of merit-based valuation…