Primary care is carrying more risk, more responsibility, and more expectation than ever. The opportunity is that we finally have a model that pays for the work most teams already do between visits. The risk is jumping into tooling and tactics before we agree on the basics. Advan…...
The Federal Trade Commission’s Sept. 12 warning to healthcare employers is a simple message with real operational consequences. Overbroad noncompetes, no‑poach language, and “de facto” restraints chill worker mobility and can limit patients’ ability to choose their clinicians. F…...
Advanced Primary Care Management represents Medicare's most ambitious attempt to transform primary care economics. Unlike previous programs that nibbled at the margins, APCM fundamentally restructures how practices organize, deliver, and bill for comprehensive care....
Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) is Medicare’s newest program, introduced in 2025 with three billing codes: G0556, G0557, and G0558. This represents a pivotal shift toward value-based primary care by offering monthly reimbursements for delivering continuous, patient-focus…...
At 2 AM, a new mother in rural Alabama feels her heart racing. She's two weeks postpartum, alone with a newborn while her husband works the night shift. Her blood pressure reading on the home monitor shows 158/95. Within minutes, her care team receives an alert. By 6 AM, a nurse…...
Many health systems pay $40–$80 per patient per month (PMPM) for full-service remote patient monitoring while Medicare's 2025 national averages reimburse approximately $91–$129 monthly depending on engagement time. When clinical teams can deliver the same services internally, th…...
A few months ago, a physician at a 12-doctor practice in rural California called me frustrated. His practice was hemorrhaging money on readmissions, his nurses were burning out from phone tag with chronic disease patients, and his administrator was getting pressure from their he…...
Medical executives today face an uncomfortable reality: while navigating shrinking margins and mounting operational pressures, many are unknowingly surrendering millions in Medicare reimbursements to third-party vendors. The culprit? Poorly structured Remote Patient Monitoring (…...
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has rapidly evolved from emerging healthcare innovation into a strategic necessity. Driven aggressively by CMS reimbursement policies, RPM adoption has accelerated at unprecedented rates, reshaping market dynamics and creating compelling strategic…...
In a single December blog post, CMS just rewrote the playbook for $400 billion in annual Medicare Advantage spending. The termination of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model (after it generated $4.5 billion in excess costs over two years) isn't just a…...
If you've spent any time managing a remote patient monitoring (RPM) program, you already know the drill: juggling the 16-day rule, keeping track of clinical minutes, chasing compliance, and often wondering if this is really what patient-centered care was meant to feel like....
Let’s be honest. Managing your health today feels like trying to coordinate a group project where nobody checks their messages. Your cardiologist, endocrinologist, and PCP are all working on the same assignment, but nobody’s sharing notes. The result? Confusion, overlap, and som…...
The healthcare industry still has scars from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 transition. The stories are legendary in Health IT circles: coder productivity plummeting, claim denials surging, and revenue cycles seizing up for months. It was a painful lesson in underestimation....
In my work with healthcare organizations across the country, I see two distinct patient profiles coming into focus. They represent the past and future of remote care, and every successful practice must now build a bridge between them. The first is the patient for whom technology…...
The healthcare landscape is continuously evolving, and among the most profound shifts emerging is the concept of the Digital Twin for Patients. This technology isn't merely an abstract idea; it represents a fundamental change in how we approach individual health and broader heal…...
Change is inevitable in healthcare. Often, it feels overwhelming—but occasionally, a new shift arrives that genuinely makes things simpler. The upcoming CMS shift toward the MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) represents precisely that kind of beneficial change....
It starts with a data spike… a sudden drop in movement, a rise in reported pain. The alert pings the provider dashboard, hinting at deterioration. But what if that signal isn’t telling the whole truth?...
Chronic pain isn’t just a condition, it’s a thief. It steals time, joy, and freedom from over 51 million Americans, according to the CDC, costing the economy $560 billion a year. As someone passionate about healthcare innovation, I’ve seen how this silent struggle affects patien…...
Picture Mary, 62, balancing a job and early diabetes. Her doctor, Dr. Patel, is her anchor—reviewing labs, coordinating with a nutritionist, tweaking her care plan. But until 2025, Dr. Patel wasn’t paid for this invisible work. It was just “what doctors do.” If you’re in healthc…...
In healthcare, most of the time, trouble doesn't announce itself with sirens and red flags. It starts quietly. A free dinner here. A paid talk there. An event that feels more like networking than education....