Everything about the MA Star Ratings Debacle as all payors sue CMS over 2025 star ratings
Amidst restructuring, CVS explores breaking up. CVS also plans to exit core infusion services, with possible job cuts, in a marked change from its previous vertical integration strategy.
Elevance announced its $2.7B acquisition of CareBridge, which will help launch a new home health service line. Elevance has been extremely busy in building out Carelon in 2024, also debuting its primary care enablement platform developed in partnership with CD&R - Mosaic Health.
HCA deploys Commure's ambient documentation and other solutions company wide as HCA's exclusive ambient platform (note the turn of phrase there - not documentation - platform) - a massive undertaking and one of the largest potential deployments of AI ever, considering HCA is the crown jewel hospital operator sitting on a $60B annual revenue base. I wrote about Augmedix (acquired by Commure) partnering with HCA here, piloting ambient technology in the ED setting, and this deployment looks to be across both inpatient and ambulatory environments. and the AI scribe thesis appears to be playing out - ambient as a wedge product into a broader platform/solution across a health system, and deeper integrations into areas like RCM.
- The multi-specialty, EHR-agnostic platform, co-developed by Commure and HCA Healthcare, is designed to support critical workflows in emergency departments, hospitalist operations, and ambulatory care.
Baylor, Novant, Providence, and Memorial Herman form Longitude Health - an innovation incubator for the 4 health systems and plans for much more excitement. I caught up with their leadership this week and posted an inside look at Longitude Health to my community here.
CMS published results for Medicare Shared Savings 2023. MSSP is the most popular, most successful value-based care program and overall generated $2.1B in net savings (excluding ACO administrative costs).
- "ACOs led by primary care clinicians had significantly higher net per capita savings than ACOs with a smaller proportion of primary care clinicians. These results continue to underscore how important primary care is to the success of the Shared Savings Program."
650+ clinicians form Scrub Capital, a conglomerate of medical professionals aiming to reshape healthcare through venture investments and pairing founders with physician advisors/folks doing the real work in the scene. If they're better at MSSP they could be better at venture too, eh?
Optum launched a flagship primary care clinic in Arizona which is Optum branded - as I mentioned in a primary focused group XPC, it's a very notable change from Optum's prior strategy of separating physicians and care delivery from the physical Optum brand. Very corporate, standardizing move, and something to watch.
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