GET TO KNOW TMA PRACTICEEDGE
TMA PracticeEdge is a company TMA launched in Febru- ary 2015 to provide physicians the technology, expertise, and investment needed to take advantage of new health care payment models. In addition to providing independent physicians strategic options to design their own future, TMA PracticeEdge is beginning to partner with other, like-minded vendors that offer products or services that:
• Enhance the quality of patient care; • Pay the physician appropriately and timely; • Do not disrupt the physician’s normal clinic flow; and • Pose little or no financial risk to the physician to implement.
TMA PracticeEdge plans to expand its service mix in early
2016, offering practices the ability to take part in and to be paid for Medicare’s Chronic Care Management program. To learn how TMA PracticeEdge can help your practice, vis- it
www.TMAPracticeEdge.com, email info@tmapracticeedge .com, or call (888) 900-0334.
dividuals and Groups — addresses the nitty-gritty components and metrics involved in value-based health care, such as population health manage- ment, performance improvement, and informatics. For instance, physicians might have
2,500 patients in their practice but ac- tively see only 500 of them in a year. Population management, Dr. Deegan says, is about looking at all 2,500 pa- tients and stratifying them based on their health status. “This is about getting doctors to
look at how they practice and seg- ment with different levels of care,” he said. “Who are my well patients, and how do I keep them well? Who are the patients with risk factors we need to watch? Who are those with chronic illnesses that are not curable but un- der control? Who are those with sev- eral chronic illnesses and problems? And how do I support my patients in a dignified way who are near the end of life?” Technology enables practices to
use that information to their advan- tage, he adds. “You can’t compete in today’s world without a reliable EHR [electronic health record]. It’s a non- starter.” Because physicians, even as leaders,
can’t do everything, the value-based care portion of the course also teach- es them to engage their team and hold them accountable to what Dr. Deegan says payers and patients expect nowa- days: “And what they are looking for is bending the cost curve.” Throughout the course, physicians
also must apply what they learn to a case study they choose at the outset. A popular one involves transitioning a fictional seven-physician internal medicine practice to a medical home. Various exercises challenge physi- cians to rearrange staffing and write a script for a conversation with a physi- cian who does not want to make the change, mimicking real-life scenarios leaders likely will encounter. Dr. Nguyen-Trong chose another case study that presented a hospital
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