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Value-Based Contracting is Coming To Behavioral Health: Prepare Yourselves to Prosper!
Jul 29, 2019
Value-Based Contracting is Coming To Behavioral Health: Prepare Yourselves to Prosper!
Jul 29, 2019

Physical health providers are well on their way down the path of value-based contracting.  Many primary care providers receive bonus payments under pay-for-performance payment models. Medicare Accountable Care Organizations are participating in shared savings programs. Some orthopedists are being paid a single bundled payment for hip replacements. Out of this bundled payment, they must cover all care from the admission to the hospital through post-surgery rehabilitation in the community.

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Jul 29, 2019
Vaccinations: What You Need to Know
May 6, 2019
Vaccinations: What You Need to Know
May 6, 2019

One of the greatest stories in public health can be traced back to the use of vaccinations to prevent disease. Here’s what you need to know.

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May 6, 2019
A Robot and A Pig: The Answer to Your Patient Engagement Problem
Apr 9, 2019
A Robot and A Pig: The Answer to Your Patient Engagement Problem
Apr 9, 2019

Learn more about Emtiro Health’s latest partnership with Pyx Health: A Mobile Care Solution.

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Apr 9, 2019
Medication Concordance – What Does It Mean and Why is It Essential to the Care We Provide at Emtiro Health?
Mar 15, 2019
Medication Concordance – What Does It Mean and Why is It Essential to the Care We Provide at Emtiro Health?
Mar 15, 2019

The famous quote from former United States Surgeon General, C. Everette Coop, certainly still holds true today that “drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.” A vast majority of the population takes one or more medications for chronic conditions and just 50% of those medications end up being taken as prescribed (with nearly a quarter of new prescriptions never being filled at all).

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Mar 15, 2019
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Hope or Hype?
Feb 25, 2019
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Hope or Hype?
Feb 25, 2019

Forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been around since the 1950s. Until recently, development has been slow, and the technology has not been altogether reliable and also very expensive. But advances in processing capability, analytics, and big data have changed much of that. We take it for granted that our smart phone can accurately hear us when we ask about a restaurant and then provide us with step-by-step driving directions to that restaurant. Soon, some predict that our “smart” car will actually drive us there with no involvement on our part at all. These abilities are all due to various systems using AI.

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Feb 25, 2019
Medicaid Managed Care Contracts Awarded
Feb 11, 2019
Medicaid Managed Care Contracts Awarded
Feb 11, 2019

After a long and competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, on Monday, February 4, 2019 the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced awards to four statewide and one regional Prepaid Health Plans (PHP) that will administer the NC Medicaid and Health Choice programs.

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Feb 11, 2019
PCMHs: Why You Need A Pharmacist on Your Team
Jan 17, 2019
PCMHs: Why You Need A Pharmacist on Your Team
Jan 17, 2019

While it may sound obvious, much of medical care involves medication.  In fact, medication accounts for 80% of the way in which practitioners prevent and treat disease. While medications can sometimes cause adverse reactions, the benefit of medication in improving health outcomes is overwhelming. 

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Jan 17, 2019
PCMH: A Framework for Practice Transformation
Dec 17, 2018
PCMH: A Framework for Practice Transformation
Dec 17, 2018

The term ‘Medical Home’ maintains rank among buzzwords in today’s health care industry, specifically as the term relates to seeking formal, national recognition from major accrediting bodies like the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), The Joint Commission (TJC), or the Utilization Review Accreditation Committee (URAC). However, the term itself dates back to a concept first-introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1967.

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Dec 17, 2018
Taking Control of Your Future Health
Nov 28, 2018
Taking Control of Your Future Health
Nov 28, 2018

We know that only a very small percent (10-20%) of our health is a by-product of what occurs when we visit our family physician or go to the hospital. We also know that chronic diseases consume a huge amount(1) of our health care budget. Why are these chronic diseases so prevalent? They are, for the most part, “lifestyle” diseases…

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Nov 28, 2018
The Value of being a Data-driven Organization
Nov 16, 2018
The Value of being a Data-driven Organization
Nov 16, 2018

In recent years, we have witnessed a huge shift in recognition around the importance of data as an asset. As the world undergoes a digital transformation, the seemingly small details of our lives are tracked, recorded, and leveraged as data points to make decisions. This cascade of information is growing at a rapid rate, creating innumerable opportunities for organizations to innovate and better serve customers and clients.

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Nov 16, 2018
The Advanced Medical Home: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know (Part II)
Oct 23, 2018
The Advanced Medical Home: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know (Part II)
Oct 23, 2018

Last week we reviewed some of the governing principles and objectives of North Carolina’s Advanced Medical Home (AMH) model. This week we will dive into the mechanics and the application (attestation process) to become an AMH.

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Oct 23, 2018
North Carolina Primary Care Providers: Here's Why You Should Be Paying Attention to the Advanced Medical Home (Part I)
Oct 7, 2018
North Carolina Primary Care Providers: Here's Why You Should Be Paying Attention to the Advanced Medical Home (Part I)
Oct 7, 2018

Medicaid’s transition towards Managed Care is complex and represents a fundamental shift in how care to beneficiaries is both delivered and paid for in North Carolina (NC). However, you do not have to digest all 700+ pages of the State’s recent request for proposal to understand how this transition will affect NC primary care providers (PCP). There is a handy shortcut that provides the essential principles and parameters guiding health care delivery under Managed Care: The Advanced Medical Home (AMH).

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Oct 7, 2018
North Carolina Medicaid Opens the Door for Collaborative Care
Sep 11, 2018
North Carolina Medicaid Opens the Door for Collaborative Care
Sep 11, 2018

When the state of North Carolina set out to transform Medicaid over 3 years ago, many in the behavioral health world cringed.

The public behavioral health community has undergone some form of change about every five years for the last 20 years; from the days of community mental health centers, to the formation of the Local Management Entity (LME) system and the current LME/MCO structure.

Each of these major changes have required flexibility and resilience on the part of those working in the public mental health arena, particularly as they seek to help confused consumers navigate the continual system changes. However, as Medicaid Transformation has unfolded, a little ray of sunshine has emerged, symbolizing that we just might be moving toward an era of better care for patients with behavioral health needs. 

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Sep 11, 2018
From Food Deserts to Food Swamps: Interventions to Improve Patient Health
Aug 15, 2018
From Food Deserts to Food Swamps: Interventions to Improve Patient Health
Aug 15, 2018

We each make over 200 decisions about food daily. Many of these decisions are strongly influenced by our food environment and may contribute to health status based on what is available. Limited access to nutritious foods, as well as overwhelming access to nutrient-poor foods, can be addressed by health professionals through motivational interviewing with tailored education and knowledge of community resources.

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Aug 15, 2018
Integrated Care – A Whole-Practice Change to Provide Whole-Person Care
Jul 22, 2018
Integrated Care – A Whole-Practice Change to Provide Whole-Person Care
Jul 22, 2018

When you hear the phrase integrated care, you probably think about a behavioral health clinician embedded in a primary care office. But, that’s not the only form of integrated care. Like all of health care, integration occurs on a continuum.

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Jul 22, 2018
Aledade, Emtiro Health Partner to Create Independent Primary Care Physician-Led ACO in North Carolina
Jun 12, 2018
Aledade, Emtiro Health Partner to Create Independent Primary Care Physician-Led ACO in North Carolina
Jun 12, 2018

Today, Maryland-based Aledade, Inc. and North Carolina-based Emtiro Health, LLC announced they are forming a new partnership to support independent providers in the North Carolina Foothills and Greater Piedmont-Triad area under Aledade’s newly formed, physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO benefits North Carolina physicians and their patients by offering a model that rewards doctors for improving quality of care and patient health outcomes, while lowering costs.

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Jun 12, 2018
Trusting our Gut (Microbiome) in Nutrition-Focused Healthcare
May 31, 2018
Trusting our Gut (Microbiome) in Nutrition-Focused Healthcare
May 31, 2018

We have all experienced a “gut feeling” about something or someone in our lives. These strong, intuitive instincts have likely lead us to act one way or another, perhaps even serving to protect. In a similar way, research is revealing that the beneficial microbes found in our gut may be influencing our mental state (via the gut-brain axis) and protecting us from a host of diseases and illnesses.

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May 31, 2018
Project ECHO: Improving Access to Speciality Care
May 18, 2018
Project ECHO: Improving Access to Speciality Care
May 18, 2018

In 2003, Dr. Sajeev Arora, a liver specialist at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, realized that his specialty clinic for the treatment of Hepatitis C was overrun with patients in need of care. Wait lists were long and many of the patients who were being seen struggled to keep their appointments because of the long distances they had to travel to Albuquerque to receive Interferon, a complicated and sole treatment available at the time.

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May 18, 2018
Medication Experts Hold Key to Transitions of Care
Apr 30, 2018
Medication Experts Hold Key to Transitions of Care
Apr 30, 2018

Pharmacists are truly the medication experts and, with a recent estimate putting the cost of hospital readmissions at over $40 billion annually and a Medicare readmission rate of nearly 20%, it’s long past time to invest in Pharmacists’ expertise.

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Apr 30, 2018
Rethinking (Patient Centered) End of Life Care
Apr 16, 2018
Rethinking (Patient Centered) End of Life Care
Apr 16, 2018

Technology has done wonders for the medical world, enabling providers to sustain life in ways that were not imaginable 50 years ago. However, when there’s no hope of a reasonable recovery, why is every life sustaining option implemented in spite of what the patient may want?

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Apr 16, 2018
New Study Confirms Existing Guidelines for Prescribing Opiates in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Mar 12, 2018
New Study Confirms Existing Guidelines for Prescribing Opiates in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Mar 12, 2018

Just this past week a new study from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) System published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides further evidence that the decades old conventional practice of prescribing opioids for certain types of chronic pain may be no more effective than over-the-counter remedies found at the drugstore.

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Mar 12, 2018
What Counts in Care?
Mar 11, 2018
What Counts in Care?
Mar 11, 2018

Health inequity is a pervasive fact in American life, but does it have to be?

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Mar 11, 2018
Emtiro Health Announces New President and CEO
Jan 30, 2018
Emtiro Health Announces New President and CEO
Jan 30, 2018

Emtiro Health’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Kelly B. Garrison will serve as the organization’s next President and CEO.

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Jan 30, 2018
Evoking Change in Patient Behavior through Motivational Interviewing
Jan 28, 2018
Evoking Change in Patient Behavior through Motivational Interviewing
Jan 28, 2018

Many patients are intimidated in health care settings. The mere fact that the provider is holding the knowledge and answers that ultimately affects the patient’s health and wellbeing puts them in a position of power. With that much influence and power, patients will of course do what their provider has directed them to do, right? Wrong. 

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Jan 28, 2018
The Role of Medical Nutrition Therapy in Addressing Food Insecurity and Disease Prevention
Jan 7, 2018
The Role of Medical Nutrition Therapy in Addressing Food Insecurity and Disease Prevention
Jan 7, 2018

The more I learn about nutrition, the more I believe Hippocrates’ words to be true. Unfortunately, the best dietary “medicine” is out of reach for many.

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Jan 7, 2018
Improving Health, Outcomes by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Dec 22, 2017
Improving Health, Outcomes by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Dec 22, 2017

What if I told you the FDA was about to approve a drug that increased life expectancy by 10 years, halved the infant mortality rate, and substantially decreased hospital admissions and emergency department use, while at the same time saving our health system $1 trillion per year?

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Dec 22, 2017
Feeling the Pressure of New Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypertension
Nov 21, 2017
Feeling the Pressure of New Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypertension
Nov 21, 2017

On November 13th The American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and nine other groups redefined high blood pressure as a reading of 130 over 80, down from 140 over 90. The change, the first in 14 years, means that 46 percent of U.S. adults, many of them under the age of 45, now will be considered hypertensive.

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Nov 21, 2017
Bringing Psychiatric Services to Primary Care with the Collaborative Care Model
Nov 19, 2017
Bringing Psychiatric Services to Primary Care with the Collaborative Care Model
Nov 19, 2017

Ask any primary care clinician and they will tell you that their practice is a de facto mental health clinic. Over half of individuals who receive mental health services in any given year receive those services in medical settings.

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Nov 19, 2017
Partnership for Community Care Network and Northwest Community Care Network Launch Joint Venture
Oct 18, 2017
Partnership for Community Care Network and Northwest Community Care Network Launch Joint Venture
Oct 18, 2017

Today, Partnership for Community Care Network (P4CC) of Greensboro and Northwest Community Care Network (NCCN) of Winston Salem announced the formation of Emtiro Health, a joint venture of the two organizations. Emtiro Health will build on the vast experience of P4CC and NCCN to provide a total population health management solution to patients, providers, and payers.

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Oct 18, 2017
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