Hospital financial assistance programs are underutilized

Real-world encounter data shows individuals enrolled in a MA plan are more likely to have a chronic condition than those who sign up for original Medicare, says Inovalon's VP of research science and advanced analytics, Christie Teigland.

Sixty percent of all healthcare payments are in some form of value-based care, says Dave Snow, CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies.

Payer-provider collaboration in data exchange is being mandated and payers must speed up the prior authorization process, says Courtney Yeakel, chief product officer of the Payer Unit at Veradigm.