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Safeguard your revenue ahead of Medicaid funding cuts: How health systems are managing their financial future

May 16, 2025
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Are tech gaps draining your revenue? Here’s what you need to know 

April 16, 2025
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Blog | Operations | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | RCM

‘If there’s no money, there’s no mission’: An interview with FQHC expert Beth Wrobel

August 5, 2024
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Clinical | Operations | Patient Engagement | Value-Based Care

Safeguard your revenue ahead of Medicaid funding cuts: How health systems are managing their financial future

Explore how health systems can protect their revenue amidst Medicaid cuts, rising patient costs and federal funding reduction

May 16, 2025
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Clinical | Operations | Patient Engagement | Value-Based Care

Are tech gaps draining your revenue? Here’s what you need to know

We broke down the top payment pitfalls stopping you from realizing revenue and value-based care reimbursements.

April 16, 2025
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Clinical | Operations | Patient Engagement | Patient Experience | Staffing | Value-Based Care

A full guide to insurance eligibility verification

Verification of insurance eligibility involves checking coverage and benefits to avoid claim rejections, simplify billing​ and improve care.

January 13, 2025
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Clinical | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Patient Activation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

The Patient Activation Measure® (PAM) performance measure (PAM-PM) has been added to more Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) specialty sets and MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) in 2025.

January 3, 2025
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Clinical | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Capturing the Patient Voice in Discharge and Rehabilitation Could Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs

Why it’s important to include patient activation in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice, and hospital quality and payment programs

July 10, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | Value-Based Care

Q&A with Wellinks on the Importance of Activating Patients

Wellinks’ Dr. Abi Sundaramoorthy and Phreesia’s Dr. Christina Suh discuss the importance of activating COPD patients, and all patients, in their care.

July 8, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Ensuring the Patient Voice is at the Heart of the MA STARS Quality Ratings Program

Supporting patient activation in MA STARS quality rating program is important.

May 13, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Engagement

3 simple steps can improve medication adherence

Alicia Cowley, MD, MBA, Director of Clinical Content at Phreesia, shares strategies for helping patients take their medications as prescribed.

May 6, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Bringing Patient Activation to Specialty Care

A key way to support more patients in taking an active role in their care is by having the PAM included in additional MIPS measure sets. 

May 2, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | Patient Engagement | Policy Perspectives

Why patient activation is key to successfully addressing health-related social needs

What makes a successful program is not only connecting patients to SDOH resources, but targeting intensive resources toward those who need them most.

April 24, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Engagement | Policy Perspectives

It doesn’t take a moonshot: The simple thing we can do to increase cancer screening rates now

The way to diagnose cancer earlier is simple, and one that our healthcare system is already equipped to do: Make it easy for people to get regularly screened.

April 23, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Experience

Q&A: How collecting self-reported race, ethnicity and language data can advance health equity

Patient race, ethnicity and language (REL) data is an essential part of health equity initiatives, but it can be challenging to accurately collect. Here’s how to improve REL data collection.

April 5, 2024