Industry Insights

What You Need to Know The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced sweeping adjustments for healthcare professionals and organizations participating in Medicare quality reporting programs in an effort to provide relief to those fighting the 2019 Novel...

Making the Most of Current Market Environments The biannual Deloitte Health Care CEO Perspectives Study interviewed 31 healthcare CEOs to gain a better understanding of the successes, challenges, and responsibilities faced by health systems and payors.  It is through...

Implementing Innovative Solutions During Times of Significant Change The biannual Deloitte Health Care CEO Perspectives Study interviewed 31 healthcare CEOs to gain a better understanding of the successes, challenges, and responsibilities faced by health systems and...

Industry Innovations Lead to Unexpected Challenges The biannual Deloitte Health Care CEO Perspectives Study interviewed 31 healthcare CEOs to gain a better understanding of the successes, challenges, and responsibilities faced by health systems and payors. It is...

Health Systems Enter 2020 Ready to Embrace Advanced Technologies and Reap the Benefits The healthcare industry has traditionally had difficulty implementing new technologies for numerous reasons. Questions of reliability, regulatory hurdles, and prohibitive costs have...

As Texas ACOs participate in value-based relationships with health plans that offer opportunities to demonstrate provision of cost-effective, high-quality diabetes care it is important to understand the diabetic population. To assess diabetes prevalence, Innovista...

How Predictive Analytics Will Change the Managed Care Landscape The conversation surrounding the future of healthcare can be complex and confusing, but one thing is clear: healthcare costs need to be brought under control. Predictive analytics offers invaluable...

Leveraging Technology to Improve Outcomes for Vulnerable and High-Risk Populations The shift from fee-for-service to value-based payment has accelerated interest in the collection and analysis of data related to Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) such as stable...

Relentless Health Value, one of the oldest and largest podcasts dedicated to health care industry decision-makers, interviewed Eric Weaver, SVP of Strategy and Transformation at Innovista Health Solutions, regarding the role of the independent physician in the...

Innovista Health Solutions’ long-time partner, the Texas Medical Association (TMA), published an article studying the success of Alliance ACO, a Texas-based accountable care organization led by Innovista’s Crystal Ecton. Alliance ACO is comprised of two groups of...

Increasing Productivity: How Leaders Set the Tone – and How They Can Improve It The healthcare industry oftentimes requires an advanced sense of care and compassion, but workplace environments seem to be extinguishing these very traits that are so valued in...

As Post-Acute Care Moves Away from Long-Term Facilities, Concerns Arise About Care Quality Increasingly large numbers of nursing homes are closing each year due to provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in addition to an increased number of assisted and...

Identifying and Addressing Doubts about the Future of Medicine Since value-based payment models were introduced through CMS programs like MSSP and extended through commercial lines of business, nearly half (47.1%) of all physicians who responded to a 2018...

Identifying the Common Steps ACOs Take to Reduce Low-Value Care The American Journal of Managed Care recently published a paper, “ACOs With Risk-Bearing Experience Are Likely Taking Steps to Reduce Low-Value Medical Services”, detailing the traits commonly found...

Embracing the Bigger Picture in Value-Based Care A key measure in furthering the success of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and clinically integrated networks (CINs) is access to holistic patient data. Succeeding in value-based reimbursement requires a high...