Chronically ill Patients Thrive With Chronic Care Management & Risk Stratification
As a physician, you face a caseload with multiple risk profiles, conditions and age demographics. While some patients only require an office visit, others require ongoing specialty care. Patients rely, more than ever, on your medical wisdom and assessment of their conditions. Handling this diversity of conditions is not beyond your skills, but seems to […]
Anticholinergic Medications in the Beers Criteria
By Hannah Grice, PharmD The Beers Criteria®1 is a leading source of expert information about potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) in older adults. While these medications are generally harmless in young patients, they can have detrimental effects in older adults. Physicians and pharmacists can easily overlook misuse of these drugs, as many are readily available to […]
Value-Based Care & Compensation
Change is a necessary force in rebalancing systems. Even a tiny application of change can yield substantial effects over time. Americans are changing how we approach healthcare reimbursement and compensation from a solid “Fee For Service” (FFS) tradition to a Value-Based Care (VBC) model. “All physicians are familiar with the physician fee schedule (PFS) model […]