AHP is hosting its next breakfast meeting for Rochester-area practice managers, billing, and front end staff on Tuesday, April 9th from 8:00am – 9:30am. The event will take place at 135 Corporate Woods, 2nd Floor Conference Room 265. The Southern Tier meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 30th from 8:00am – 9:30am at Noyes Memorial…
AHP’s network-wide 2019 quality metrics are now available. The measures will be added to Arcadia in the coming weeks, and the Arcadia Connection article here details how the new measures will be rendered in the dashboard. Four measures from 2018 were discontinued for 2019: Chlamydia Screening Osteoporosis Management DM HbA1c ≤ 9 Adolescent BMI Percentile…
Keeping AHP up-to-date about your practice’s information has never been more important than now. Whether it’s to help patients find the correct phone number for your office on AHP’s online directory or to ensure that claims process correctly for patients covered by a health plan that has AHP as the tier one network, AHP needs…
The Arcadia Connection is a recurring feature in Network News that keeps you up to date with news about the Arcadia Analytics Dashboard and connects you with information about workflow improvements and best practices that improve measure performance. This issue of Arcadia Connection focuses on the 2019 quality measures. We are currently working with Arcadia…
AHP will be distributing clinical integration payments for the fourth quarter of 2018 to contract-participating, community PCPs in March. Based on a provider’s member attribution under an AHP gain sharing contract, these payments are provided to support provider efforts to advance AHP’s clinical integration initiatives. Checks are scheduled to be mailed in late March. Also…
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has contracted with Vatica Health to provide a web-based tool that increases the accuracy and completeness in coding of HCCs for Medicare Advantage members. AHP is encouraging primary care practices with significant Excellus Medicare Advantage attribution to consider implementing the Vatica program, since more accurate HCC coding may position AHP for additional…
We are always looking for new ways to connect with our partners, and sometimes a once-a-month newsletter just won’t get the job done! That’s why we invite you to look for AHP on Twitter and LinkedIn. With postings on healthcare news, job opportunities and upcoming events, following AHP will keep you even better informed about…
Please save the date for AHP’s next Clinical Grand Rounds scheduled for Thursday, March 28, 2019. The event will be held at the UR Alumni and Advancement Center at 300 East River Road, Rochester, NY from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. The meeting’s agenda is being finalized and will be included in the meeting invitation that…
As we continue to close out our data from 2018 we want to be able to provide you with the most accurate snapshot of our performance. This month we do not have a Population Health Dashboard to show, but can report that the network’s Triple Aim reports will be delivered in mid-March.
We are excited to report that as of last week the AHP Board voted to accept and approve the contracts that were recently negotiated with Excellus for the three year term spanning from 2019 to 2021 for the Commercial and Medicaid lines of business. We believe the terms were quite favorable on both contracts and…
