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Western Region Health System Works with CCGroup to Improve Clinically Integrated Network Efficiency and Reduce Losses on Capitation Arrangements
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Western Region Health System Works with CCGroup to Improve Clinically Integrated Network Efficiency and Reduce Losses on Capitation Arrangements

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) is working with a Western Region health system to improve the efficiency of the system’s clinically integrated network (CIN). “Our client’s CIN was built on quality and access to deliver healthcare to 170,000 capitated ACO REACH and Medicare Advantage patients,” stated Dr. Douglas G. Cave, President of CCGroup. “Little attention was paid to specialists’ efficiency in managing to a global budget – until losses began mounting over several years.”

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Healthcare Organizations Direct Patients to Knee/Hip Replacement Surgeons with Better Patient Outcomes
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Healthcare Organizations Direct Patients to Knee/Hip Replacement Surgeons with Better Patient Outcomes

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–“Value based payment incentivizes health systems and provider groups to develop interventions that reduce clinical waste and overutilization,” stated Dr. Douglas G. Cave, President/CEO of Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup). He continued, “A procedure with the greatest potential for clinical waste and overutilization is knee/hip replacements.”

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CCGroup Maintains the Largest, Most Accurate, and Accepted Database on Physician Cost and Quality in Treating Prevalent Medical Conditions
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CCGroup Maintains the Largest, Most Accurate, and Accepted Database on Physician Cost and Quality in Treating Prevalent Medical Conditions

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) maintains the largest database on physician cost and quality of care with respect to managing and treating prevalent medical conditions. This database is called the CCGroup-CMS Innovator Project Database. “We accurately and reliably measure the cost and quality of over 80% of all practicing primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialists in the United States,” stated Dr. Douglas G. Cave, President/CEO of CCGroup. Dr. Cave continued, “For a good number of specialty types, over 90% of all physicians cost and quality are measured.”

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Part 2: CCGroup Clinical Decision Support System Quantifies “COVID Effect” on Decreased Healthcare Utilization in the United States
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Part 2: CCGroup Clinical Decision Support System Quantifies “COVID Effect” on Decreased Healthcare Utilization in the United States

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This Cave Consulting Group Inc. (CCGroup) study quantifies the COVID Effect’s impact on decreased U.S. healthcare utilization. Decreased utilization is a function of at least two components: (1) decreased volume of medical condition episodes seen by PCPs and specialists; and (2) decreased volume of key medical services (MedMarkers™) used to diagnose and/or treat those medical condition episodes that are seen by PCPs and specialists.

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CCGroup Clinical Decision Support System Quantifies “COVID Effect” on Decreased Healthcare Utilization in the United States
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CCGroup Clinical Decision Support System Quantifies “COVID Effect” on Decreased Healthcare Utilization in the United States

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) initiated this study to quantify the COVID Effect’s impact on decreased U.S. healthcare utilization. Decreased utilization is a function of at least two components: (1) decreased volume of medical condition episodes seen by PCPs and specialists; and (2) decreased volume of key medical services (MedMarkers™) used to diagnose and/or treat those medical condition episodes that are seen by PCPs and specialists. “We examine here only the initial component, decreased volume of medical condition episodes,” stated Dr. Douglas Cave, President of CCGroup.

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CCGroup Enables Intelligent Patient Steerage to Efficient Specialists Providing Specific Procedures in a Timely Manner
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CCGroup Enables Intelligent Patient Steerage to Efficient Specialists Providing Specific Procedures in a Timely Manner

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With value based payment, health plans and clinically integrated networks (CINs) need to provide access to the best possible healthcare in a timely manner at the lowest total cost. “One important way to meet this goal is to steer patients to those network specialists that efficiently provide a specific procedure and have time availability,” stated Dr. Douglas G. Cave, President of Cave Consulting Group (CCGroup). Issues today are health plan and CIN leaders: do not know the efficient specialists and sub-specialists; do not know those specialists that perform specific procedures or how often; and recognize patients wait too long to receive a needed procedure (often two months or longer).

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Mountain-Based Health Plan Works with CCGroup to Relax Prior Authorization and Build High Value Networks
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Mountain-Based Health Plan Works with CCGroup to Relax Prior Authorization and Build High Value Networks

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A mountain-based health plan is working with Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) in the area of prior authorization and utilization management (PA/UM) transformation. “Over time, an objective is to limit PA/UM programs to outlier providers whose ordering patterns differ significantly from clinically appropriate ranges of clinical practice as well as their peers,” stated Dr. Douglas Cave, President of CCGroup.

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Southern Health System Works with CCGroup to Tier Clinically Integrated Network Based on Cost and Quality
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Southern Health System Works with CCGroup to Tier Clinically Integrated Network Based on Cost and Quality

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A large southern health system with many employed and affiliated physicians is working with Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) to support their clinically integrated network (CIN), tiered network strategy. The tiered CIN strategy is based on efficiency (cost of care) and effectiveness (quality of care). A tiered CIN is necessary to successfully manage value based payments from local area health plans and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hawaii IPA Works with CCGroup to Address Practice Variations for Medicare Advantage Patients Under Risk-Adjusted, Capitation Payments
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Hawaii IPA Works with CCGroup to Address Practice Variations for Medicare Advantage Patients Under Risk-Adjusted, Capitation Payments

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Hawaii Independent Physicians Association (Hawaii IPA) is working with Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) to access accurate and reliable physician efficiency (cost-of-care) and effectiveness (quality process of care) scores. “A main reason is that Hawaii IPA accepts capitation payment for Medicare Advantage patients. Therefore, we need to identify and reduce practice variations to improve quality and cost of care to successfully live within a global budget,” stated Dr. Richard Chung, Chief Medical Strategist for Hawaii IPA.

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CCGroup Launches Cloud/SaaS Subscription Model for Access to National Physician Efficiency Results from CCGroup-CMS Innovator Project
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CCGroup Launches Cloud/SaaS Subscription Model for Access to National Physician Efficiency Results from CCGroup-CMS Innovator Project

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–“Clinically integrated networks (CINs) and provider groups need immediate access to accurate and reliable physician efficiency (cost-of-care) and effectiveness (quality process of care) scores to better prepare for value base payments from health plans and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),” stated Dr. Douglas G. Cave, President/CEO of Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup). CINs/provider groups want access to this physician performance information through the easy-to-use, CCGroup Cloud/SaaS subscription model.

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