What pharma can’t say about outcomes based contracts at JPMorgan 2018. Hint: It’s the “P” word.

December 12, 2017 - Curant Health COO Marc O'Connor in Becker’s Hospital Review Senior leadership of integrated delivery networks and health systems believe there is value in in-house specialty pharmacy, based on numerous, ongoing attempts to create their own. According to Adam Fein, 47% of hospitals with more than 600 beds operated a specialty pharmacy […]

Here's a hint: It’s mostly about why ACO leadership should attend FLAACOs 2018. CMS recently reported that more than 400 ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program generated $652 million in gross savings in 2016. While that is an encouraging number to be sure, some ACOs still struggle to identify and implement investment and […]

By definition, accountable care organizations are the tip of the spear in the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care by tying payments to quality metrics and the cost of care. Did you know there are 16 quality performance standards by which ACOs are evaluated tied to medication adherence, education and the medication management team? Through […]

[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.4.1" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" hover_enabled="0"]   Video: Positively impacting outcomes through pharmacist-led chronic care management for IBD patients. Johns Hopkins Medicine and Curant Health are in the midst of a unique, 24-month project examining the impact of medication adherence and chronic care management for […]

September 13, 2017 - Curant Health Director of Clinical Services, Vickie Andros, PharmD, and Senior Director of Commercial Strategy & Performance, Jake Caines, in Becker’s Hospital Review – Defining success as an ACO: Q&A with Dr. Joshua Lowentritt, MD Having detailed one model attempting to unlock shared savings through improved medication management, we thought a fitting […]

September 11, 2017 - Curant Health COO, Marc O'Connor, in Specialty Pharmacy Times - GROWTH IN U.S. SPENDING ON prescription drugs dropped in 2016 as intense competition among manufacturers and payers ramped up efforts to limit price increases, according to the report “Medicines Use and Spending in the US,” released earlier this year by the […]

September 7, 2017 - Curant Health Director of Clinical Services, Vickie Andros, PharmD, and Senior Director of Commercial Strategy & Performance, Jake Caines, in Becker’s Hospital Review - The move to an ACO model disrupts decades of process and infrastructure designed to support fee-for-service care. As we discussed in part 1 and part 2 of this […]

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