April 21, 2015 - Curant Health President and CEO, Patrick Dunham, in Modern Medicine - Medicare is in the midst of a seismic shift in how it reimburses providers. On March 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation repealing the old sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, which reimburses providers for “activities and treatments.” In […]
April 7, 2015 - Curant Health President and CEO, Patrick Dunham, featured in FierceHealthcare - The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to permanently repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula last month, but if the Senate also approves it, the fix may create a new set of problems, according to Vox. Under the repeal […]
April 7, 2015 - Curant Health President and CEO, Patrick Dunham, in Forbes - Believe it or not, Congress finally agreed on something. On March 26th, the House passed legislation to repeal Medicare’s physician payment formula known as the sustainable growth rate (SGR), which compensates Medicare providers based on “activities and treatments,” and replace it […]
Out with fee-for-service; welcome value-based healthcare! Early next week, the U.S. Senate is expected to address House Resolution 2 (H.R.2), the long awaited “doc fix” law designed to bring about the end of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) - the broken formula that determines at what rate physicians are compensated for services provided to Medicare […]
Three of the most heavily invested players in the pharmaceutical industry are at odds. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have to recoup R&D costs and demonstrate accountability to their leadership and shareholders. PBMs are responsible for driving down costs for their plan sponsors. Frequently, this is achieved by hard negotiations with manufacturers. Pharmacists, the healthcare providers best positioned […]
Revenue reaches $138M, employees top 100 further evidence Curant Health driving healthcare value March 24, 2015 - Atlanta, GA - Curant Health is adding 11,600 s.f. to its Atlanta headquarters. The expansion brings Curant’s presence at 200 Technology Ct. to a total of 26,844 s.f., space that is necessary to accommodate consistent double digit growth and […]
How should Medicare providers and ACOs prepare for the shift from fee-for-service to value-based pay? Under a new proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the shift away from fee-for-service to value-based pay in the public healthcare realm is at last becoming real. According to an HHS press release issued January 26, […]
The healthcare headline I’d most like to see This is the one big healthcare headline I would like to see make the news this year. And I can think of no better way to align all healthcare stakeholders than to eliminate once and for all the widely despised, unenforceable, underfunded Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate […]
What is the “healthcare business?” More importantly, what ISN’T? I had an epiphany while at the J.P. Morgan 33rd Annual Healthcare Conference last month in San Francisco. The vast majority of the CEOs presenting and the companies they serve and represent are truly in the “Healthcare Business.” The epiphany I had was simply that Curant Health […]
The Physician Time Crunch The data is disturbing. Despite advancements in technology, physicians spend less time with patients than ever before. According to a study published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine in 2013, doctors now spend an average of eight minutes with each of their patients daily, equating to about 12% of their […]
