POPULATION HEALTH: Management?

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP

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What is population health management?

The Care Continuum Alliance, an alliance of stakeholders across the continuum of care, is working precisely toward the goal of improving the health of populations. They espouse a detailed set of principles and a model of “population health management.” It can be summed up, in the broadest sense, as the care provider community, in partnership with patients and their families, conducting proactive and collective monitoring of the patient’s healthcare quality, adherence, access, and outcomes with the goal of improving the health of an entire patient population.

As such, population health management stresses wellness and prevention through lifestyle and disease management and complex case management to remove the gap between zero care and costly chronic or emergency care. It emphasizes the full spectrum of needs from prevention and wellness to keeping healthy people and at-risk people healthy, to better manage the care of those with chronic conditions, and to still be ready to provide emergent or acute care services. In most cases, it also includes the involved providers taking on accountability for the financial risk and quality of care provided.

We have been working with administrative and physician leaders across the country to grapple with what it will mean to actually foster valuable population health management in the different communities they serve. It is clear that this is a whole new paradigm and that the years of experience and training that have brought them to where they are today may not have sufficiently prepared them for what is to come. It requires a well-coordinated and complete continuum of care, with new metrics and advanced analytics. As one might expect,while clusters of resistance to the idea remain, most have flung themselves into learning mode and are beginning to “act their way into new thinking.”

However, we also see a big risk in powering ahead without revisiting the role of a key stakeholder group—patients and their families, whose experience and perspective are often left behind, but whose actions will have a profound effect on the future success of population health management efforts.

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Its earnings season once again and CVS Health beat Wall Street estimates with $2.3 billion in profit during Q3. Humana raised its Medicare Advantage enrollment projections again.

And, population management telehealth giant Amwell inked a major federal contract but has seen its losses balloon in 2023.

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Here’s where the major stock market benchmarks ended:

  • The S&P 500 index rose 6.96 points (0.1%) to 5,187.70; the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 31.99 points (0.1%) to 38,884.26; the NASDAQ Composite® ($COMP) eased 16.70 points (0.1%) to 16,332.56.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield dropped more than 3 basis points to 4.457%.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) fell 0.26 to 13.23.

Interest-rate-sensitive sectors, such as real estate and utilities, were among the market’s strongest performers Tuesday. The Philadelphia Utility Index (UTY) rose 1.3%, its fifth straight daily gain, and hit its highest level in almost a year. The recent strength may in part reflect heightened expectations for lower interest rates, which may make utility shares with relatively high dividend yields compared to Treasuries more appealing. The utilities sector is also coming off a strong April, during which it was the only S&P 500 sector with a positive return, with chart patterns suggesting a bullish long-term momentum shift.

The semiconductor sector was among the weakest sectors Tuesday, partly behind a 1.7% drop in Nvidia (NVDA). The shares fell after billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller told CNBC he reduced his stake in the chipmaker in late March, saying that artificial intelligence may be a “little overhyped” for the short term.

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Peloton is reportedly being circled by private equity firms for a potential buyout of the enfeebled fitness company.

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The SEC is preparing to sue over Robinhood’s crypto business. Robinhood just revealed that it’s been notified that the SEC plans to bring an enforcement action against its crypto unit for alleged securities violations. But the online brokerage said it’s not sweating: “We firmly believe that the assets listed on our platform are not securities and we look forward to engaging with the SEC to make clear just how weak any case against Robinhood Crypto would be on both the facts and the law,” Dan Gallagher, Robinhood’s chief legal, compliance, and corporate affairs officer, wrote in a blog post. Such a notice doesn’t always mean a suit will follow, but crypto companies and the agency have been sparring for years over whether crypto tokens count as securities.

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The Biden administration were quick to praise a new report that extends the lifespan of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, but the report renewed calls for increasing physician payments.


Amwell, a telehealth company, continues to struggle in the stock market, and both its bottom- and top-line results in the first quarter missed Street analysts’ estimates.


And … between the Change Healthcare cyberattack and Medicare Advantage headwinds, major insurers faced unique challenges in the first quarter.

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Stat: 8.7%. That’s the level to which US consumers can expect the 30-year mortgage rate to rise over the next year, which marks a series high, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey (MarketWatch)

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OUTCOMES: In-Person and Tele-Health Encounters During COVID-19

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Outcomes of In-Person and Tele-Health Encounters During COVID-19

 •  Ambulatory encounters decreased by 1.0% and the number of in-person encounters per enrollee decreased by 17.0% from 2019 to 2020.
 •  For members with an initial telehealth encounter for a new acute condition, the adjusted odds ratio was 1.44 for all follow-ups combined and 1.11 for an emergency department encounter.
 •  For members with an initial telehealth encounter for a new chronic condition, the adjusted odds ratios were 0.94 for all follow-ups combined and 0.94 for in-patient admissions.

Source: JAMA Network, April 26, 2022

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