Given the large number of PHM suppliers already available, and growing numbers of hospitals, physicians, and other suppliers joining still, the number of options across the seven elements of PHM is enormous. If there were as few as five options available for each element, to say nothing of different mixes of elements for […]
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To a great degree, the evaluation element in PHM comprises repetition of one or more of the assessments done for the initial baseline analysis. Ideally, this repetition, whenever it is repeated, will identify the changes of concern to payers, at least, while any added tracking of results used to sustain participants in their […]
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Once targets are enrolled, i.e. as many choose to opt in or fail to opt out, there remains the next challenge of sustaining their participation, in terms of frequency and duration of interactions, cooperation in pursuing the intervention goal, and making behavior changes – and completing or continuing in the intervention, depending on […]
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Scott MacStravic
The range of interventions that DIY payers and PHM suppliers have adopted in seeking desired behavior, health status, healthcare/WC/disability cost reductions, and improvements in productivity or performance is vast – as is the range of costs and charges for such interventions. The least intense, expensive, and unfortunately effective method of which I […]
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Once members of the population have been targeted for participation in particular PHM interventions, the next step is to recruit as many as possible, or at least as many as will contributable value per participant, to each intervention. Such recruitment may actually be part of the assessment process, when members of the population […]
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Scott MacStravic
The first purpose of the assessment process is to determine the size of the PHM challenge and of potential gains from implementing a PHM strategy. The assessment process is then also used in the evaluation process, to identify changes in measured “success” dimensions against the baseline data. But another key use of […]
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The sheer number of dimensions of the PHM challenge that are to be measured partly determines the relative difficulty, uncertainty, and costs involved, but the types of dimensions makes an even greater difference. One fairly common practice, however, is to count only the numbers of health risks, chronic conditions, or impairment causes, […]
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The first basic split among PHM clients in terms of which dimensions of economic impact will be used in assessing problems and evaluating gains is that between commercial and government insurers on the one hand, and employers on the other. Insurers focus mainly, though not exclusively, on reductions in sickness care costs as […]
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Scott MacStravic
Population Health Management (PHM) has become a major market for insurers, governments, and employers to invest in – and for a wide range of organizations, from traditional healthcare providers to specialized PHM suppliers to insurers to deliver to that market. The numbers of suppliers keeps growing as the number of payer clients […]
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