Findings on Managed Care Reported by Investigators at Virginia Mason Medical Center (Bridging To Value With Codes That Promote Care Management)

2020 DEC 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting from Seattle, Washington, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Transitional care management (TCM) and chronic care management (CCM) fee-for-service billing codes can serve as bridges to help organizations build care management capabilities and effectively transition from volume- to value-based care. TCM codes encourage providers to build capabilities for managing hospital discharge transitions.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Virginia Mason Medical Center, “CCM codes encourage physician and nonphysician staff to build capabilities for longitudinally managing patients with multiple chronic conditions. Implementation challenges include achieving return on investment in health information technology and securing stakeholder commitment and engagement.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Nonetheless, policy makers have reinforced their commitment to these codes, offering an encouraging signal for organizations seeking more gradual ways to build competencies and bridge toward value-based payment and care delivery.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Bridging To Value With Codes That Promote Care Management. The American Journal of Managed Care, 2020;26(11). The American Journal of Managed Care can be contacted at: Managed Care & Healthcare Communications Llc, 666 Plainsboro Rd, Ste 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Catherine S. Hwang, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Dept. of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, United States. Additional authors for this research include Ashok Reddy and Joshua M. Liao.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2020.88528. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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