One of our senior vice presidents, Jay Warden, MBA, will be co-presenting the webinar, “Midwestern Healthcare Environment:  A Preview for 2012.”  Don’t miss this discussion on Midwest 2012 issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities.  Register at:  http://www.healthwebsummit.com/ppmidwest120911.htm.

Today's Health Care Innovation Challenge webinar provided additional details on requirements, eligibility, and other application specifics. Highlights from today's CMMI webinar: 1. Application scoring criteria are heavily weighted for program design, capacity for successful implementation, and long-term financial sustainability (75% of total) 2. CMMI is not reserving funds for an Innovation Challenge Round 2 (this…

Some initial thoughts on the CMMI Health Care Innovation Challenge, from Eric Nielsen, M.D., and James Smith, MBA, FACHE, two of the senior thought leaders at our firm: The CMMI Health Care Innovation Challenge gives a funding opportunity for providers, payers, and local governments who care for Medicaid and Medicare recipients – particularly the old,…

CMMI released yet another initiative yesterday – the Health Care Innovation Challenge. The three-year funding opportunity continues CMMI's promotion of the Three-part Aim – Better Quality, Lower Costs, and Better Health – for CMS beneficiaries.  It is aimed at attracting large-scale initiatives (funding ranges from $1M to $30M) with an emphasis on vulnerable/high risk/high need populations,…

One of our VPs, Daniel Cusator, M.D., MBA, was interviewed for an article in a special compensation issue of Today’s Hospitalist.  Check out the latest on hospitalist compensation trends.  http://www.todayshospitalist.com/index.php?b=articles_read&cnt=1380

Join us at the Second National ACO Congress in Los Angeles, California, November 1-3.  Laura Jacobs, EVP, The Camden Group, will be speaking at the Preconference on “CMS ACO Regulations Part 2 – A Deep Dive into the Revised Regulations.    http://www.acocongress.com/index.html.