All across the county, healthcare experts are stepping up to provide essential care services to those most in need. While many industries have enabled employees to work from home in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus, healthcare workers have no such luxury. If you work in healthcare, you’re no doubt right in... Read More
The healthcare field is facing an unprecedented situation. As the coronavirus upends virtually every aspect of modern life, the world is relying on healthcare professionals to simultaneously protect infected COVID-19 patients, protect themselves, prevent the spread of the virus to other patients and the community at... Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Ensocare Transition, Patient Discharge, Case Management, blog
Business Intelligence Engineer Matt Tweedy was recently recognized as the recipient of our parent company CQuence Health Group’s most prestigious honor, the Bob Cassling Service Excellence Award. The award, which was created in 2015, celebrates founder Bob Cassling’s legacy of taking excellent care of customers and... Read More
by Ensocare in Employee Profile, blog
As an observer of trends in healthcare delivery, “value-based care” has represented a ubiquitous theme of the 2000s. While on-going debate exists regarding the cost savings and quality improvement actually realized by value-based care initiatives like CMS’ variety of episode-based bundled payment programs, it is clear... Read More
by Justine Olsen in Value-Based Care, blog, Transitions of Care, Performance Improvement
Of all the industries in which technology plays an important role, healthcare is arguably one of the most crucial. In healthcare, technology can help solve staffing issues, improve efficiencies, enhance the relationship between medical professionals and patients and, ultimately, provide more effective healthcare... Read More
by Ensocare in blog, Care Management
Last week, Ensocare team members had an opportunity to see how all the pieces of the Ensocare ecosystem work in concert to improve care coordination for hospitals moving patients between care settings. Read More
by Marc Costanzo in Healthcare IT, Ensocare Transition, blog
On November 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will finalize a rule meant to ensure appropriate data is provided to patients and their families when they’re making their decision about a post-acute care (PAC) provider. Read More
by Karen Underwood in Post-acute Care, Patient Discharge, blog
In 2019, Leavitt Partners released a White Paper with a title that should be eye-opening to any caregiver: “No Evidence That ACO-Affiliated Hospitals Are Narrowing Their PAC Networks” That’s not good, guys! The whole point of the narrow post-acute care (PAC) network is to identify, based on data, post-acute facilities... Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Post-acute Care, Narrow Networks, blog
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their long-awaited final rule for hospitals that fall under certain payment models in Fiscal Year 2020, and it’s a doozy. Released at the beginning of August 2019, there’s a lot of information to sort through, and CMS has been kind enough to issue a summary... Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Value-based payment models, Reducing Readmissions, blog, reimbursement
To understand how their organization enrolls and conducts outreach to patients entering a care management program, care coordinators often find themselves questioning procedures: What is our process to enroll our patients? How do I get them activated in their care? How do I persuade them to willingly work with us?... Read More
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