on March 29, 2013 |
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Topics: Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Primary Care, Chronic Care Management, Methodologies, Performance Improvement, Patient-Focused Care, Care Transformation, Medical Home, Physician Issues
Megan Tooley, Cardiovascular Roundtable
This week, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) launched a recognition program that aims to extend its successful Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model beyond primary care to specialty practices. The new Patient-Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP) designation program provides clear guidelines for specialists looking to establish a role in patient-centered “medical neighborhoods,” and will recognize practices committed to providing team-based, coordinated care and enhancing communication with providers and patients across the continuum.
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Specialists get a shot at patient-centered medical home model
on February 15, 2013 |
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Topics: Physician Issues, Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Performance Improvement, Quality, Workforce, Performance Evaluations, Performance Management
Nicole MacMillan, Cardiovascular Roundtable
Clinical peer review. It’s a proven way to maintain high care quality. And yet, as Cardiovascular Roundtable members tell us, it so frequently fails up to live up to our expectations.
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Effective peer review processes: Resources for your program
on February 13, 2013 |
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Topics: Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Imaging, Service Line Growth, Volume Growth, Strategy, Referral Management, Physician Issues, Quality, Performance Improvement, Physician Marketing, Marketing
Megan Tooley, Cardiovascular Roundtable
Recently, members have been asking us for strategies to strengthen their relationships with referring physicians, particularly for CV diagnostic testing. In light of declining volumes for CV services, it’s crucial to make sure you are capturing referrals for these front-end services.
We offer many best practices for enhancing CV market capture in our ongoing national meeting presentation "CV Imaging as the Nexus of Growth" and our study CV Marketing Strategy. But today I want to highlight another organization that is strategically marketing a new service that ensures CV imaging report quality to strengthen high-priority referral relationships.
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Here's one idea for securing CV imaging referrals
