For healthcare organizations and providers involved in a Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), 2025 is truly a time of transition and a little uncertainty. When colleagues recently asked for my thoughts on MSSP this year, the old saying “May you live in interesting times” kept coming to mind.
Category: Value-Based Care (VBC)
Data-Driven Impact in Healthcare: A Success Story
At HealthEC, we know that healthcare isn’t just about data—it’s about lives. That’s why we approach our work with empathy and humility, understanding that behind every metric are real people. This approach, combined with robust data insights, leads to meaningful change.
Using AI and UM Workflows to Automate Prior Authorization, Determinations & More
Prior authorization can cause serious issues for members and providers if processes are not properly architected by a healthcare payor. More than nine in 10 physicians (94%) reported care delays while waiting for health care insurers to authorize necessary care, a physician survey by the American Medical Association found. Eighty percent said prior authorization can...
Clearinghouse Services for Michigan and Minnesota
For more than 14 years, HealthEC has been providing fast, easy-to-use, and dependable electronic claims submission services for health organizations both large and small.
How Can Healthcare Plans Empower Members to be Active Participants in Their Health?
When people have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to engage in their own health, better outcomes are much more achievable. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this conclusion was based on a research review that linked better health outcomes to higher levels of activation (having the knowledge, skills, and confidence to...
How Can You Meet Healthcare Expectations of Millennials?
This post is the final post in a five-part series highlighting top insights from our white paper, Personalized Value-Based Care: Effective Multi-Generational Care Management Strategies. It’s true that meeting the health needs of individuals across generations is partly about age-related clinical factors. But there’s much more to consider. Addressing generation-specific attitudes, concerns, and preferences regarding...
How Can You Engage Generation Z in Healthcare?
This is the final post in a five-part series highlighting top insights from our white paper, Personalized Value-Based Care: Effective Multi-Generational Care Management Strategies. It’s true that meeting the health needs of individuals across generations is partly about age-related clinical factors. But there’s much more to consider. Addressing generation-specific attitudes, concerns, and preferences regarding healthcare,...
3 Reasons Why It’s Time for You to Update Your Utilization Management Solution
In the last few years, challenges related to prior authorization have created inefficiencies in health care that negatively impact both health outcomes for members and the costs both payers and members must pay. That’s why in December 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed Rule CMS-0057-P. The new rule is designed to...
5 Strategies to Re-Engage Members in a Post-Covid World
The worst of COVID-19 may be retreating into the rearview, but the pandemic’s effect on general population health lingers. Whether it was limited access to care, fear of exposure, or tangential factors like lack of childcare, people of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds put preventive care on pause. That has led to: Delays in care ...
How Can You Deliver Value-Based Care that Engages Baby Boomers?
This post is part of a five-part series highlighting top insights from our white paper, Personalized Value-Based Care: Effective Multi-Generational Care Management Strategies. It’s true that meeting the health needs of individuals across generations is partly about age-related clinical factors. But there’s more to consider. Addressing generation-specific attitudes, concerns, and preferences regarding healthcare, as well...