With care administration and engagement instruments, the Franciscan Alliance healthcare ministry was capable of generate $2.2 million in financial savings throughout a number of Medicare and Medicare Benefit plans, based on an announcement Wednesday.
The Franciscan well being system leveraged the Innovaccer platform to cut back readmissions, automate emergency division workflows and enhance the affected person expertise, the corporate stated.
Creating financial savings with high-risk protocols
Of observe, the Indiana-based multi-specialty community carried out customizable polypharmacy protocols that handle high-risk prescriptions to coordinate care.
Automated pre-visit planning helped stop downstream utilization, resembling inpatient visits, whereas serving to to ship extra complete affected person care. That saved Franciscan $481,000 for its MSSP inhabitants and $388,000 for its Medicare Benefit inhabitants and prevented a complete of 75 inpatient visits throughout each populations throughout the measuring interval.
The 493 polypharmacy protocols enabled scientific ambulatory pharmacists to trace remedy plans for comorbid danger populations and preserve steady engagement with sufferers post-discharge, producing greater than $985,000 in financial savings.
The well being system’s doctor ambulatory community is utilizing Innovaccer’s inhabitants well being administration suite to enhance scientific processes and streamline operations. The digital well being document system-agnostic instruments are utilized by many stakeholders, together with the well being system’s medical coders.
With the combination of streamlining coding processes and superior danger adjustment analytics that used historic claims and scientific knowledge, Franciscan dropped HCC code identification on the level of care, reaching a 2.8% enchancment in coding hole closure price throughout populations.
Automated coding processes helped Franciscan understand $312,000 in worth, Innovaccer stated.
To streamline emergency room discharge planning and expedite follow-up care, automated alerts helped Franciscan nurses carry out extra well timed outreach and document care episodes
Automating processes to enhance affected person care
Franciscan has lengthy appeared to expertise to automate processes, together with outpatient appointment registration and check-in and checkout throughout visits, based on Craig Miller, administrative director of ambulatory companies.
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Franciscan expanded telehealth choices and distant affected person monitoring applications to determine alternatives to raised join sufferers with care groups throughout the care continuum, Miller instructed Healthcare IT Information in December.
To shut gaps in care, “We centered on broad rollout throughout our physicians and suppliers to assist ambulatory in addition to inpatient sufferers, and to shut the gaps in transitions of care, or fragmentation,” he stated beforehand.
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