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Founded in 2020, Novocardia is the value-based care division of Cardiovascular Associates of America (CVAUSA), a comprehensive cardiology practice management services organization working with more than 450 cardiovascular clinicians across sixteen practices in eight states.  These clinicians collectively care for more than 750,000 patients. Novocardia is dedicated to developing and testing value-based care and contracting models and scaling them across the CVAUSA network--accelerating its clinicians’ ability to deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right time, for all Americans with cardiovascular disease.

In a saturated market filled with bold, but often unsupported claims about ROI, how do you differentiate your clinical solution from the rest? In this webinar, Accorded CEO, Frank Cheung and Galileo CCO, Jacob Coniglio, present on how to leverage actuarial intelligence to effectively communicate cost of care savings and sell with more precision and transparency.

Oshi Health offers high-touch virtual care for digestive conditions, helping people achieve lasting symptom control. It works with employers, insurers, health systems, and community GI practices to scale access to multidisciplinary care, reduce healthcare costs, and improve the lives of millions of Americans with chronic GI diseases.

By selecting vendors that drive the most clinical and financial value for your organization, you are investing in the overall success of your benefits programs. In this webinar series, we will answer questions around value-based vendor selection, what it takes to implement alternative payment arrangements, and what a partnership with value-forward vendors can unlock for you.

This article is a deep dive into key learnings from Accorded’s 2023 Survey of US Benefits Leaders. See the full research summary here →

It’s often said that HR leaders are in the health insurance business – and it’s true. Sufficiently large companies tend to be self-funded, meaning they foot the bill for their health plan claims. Benefits teams do not just manage their company’s benefits package, but spend a substantial amount of time trying to manage the health (and therefore risk) of their members.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way we live, work, and receive healthcare. But are these lasting changes? We examine the utilization of telehealth before, during, and after the pandemic to understand if the rise in telehealth was a temporary trend or a fundamental shift in how people expect to access healthcare.

The US healthcare landscape is changing. Traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment models have proven to be financially unsustainable and ineffective at addressing patient needs, a trend that has only been exacerbated by COVID-19 and rapid inflation. The pressure from regulators, patients, and market disruptors to move away from FFS is pushing the market to reconsider how contracts should be structured to best align payer and provider incentives for improving quality of care, enhancing patient experience, and reducing cost of care.