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By RaeAnn Grossman New data shows millennials are in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover. Their woes have delayed traditional adult milestones in ways expected to alter the nation’s demographic and economic contours. We now need to reframe healthcare and care delivery with these

By RaeAnn Grossman As DataLink enters the national Medicaid market, we have added more social determinant collection opportunities to our EvokeEHR and Evoke360 platform to create a more robust care pathway and care plan for all ages. We applaud Sesame Street as they welcome a Muppet named Karli who is

By RaeAnn Grossman What is going on at DataLink during Medicare Advantage bid season? Our Evoke360 platform integrates total costs, quality, risk adjustment, and provider network metrics, in addition to tracking value-based transformation. Evoke360 shows the wellness of the population, the engagement of the provider community, and the financial performance

By RaeAnn Grossman Last Friday night, I was privileged to attend the Indiana University Kelley School of Business graduation ceremony. There were a lot of well dressed, intelligent students walking across the stage about to take on the first stage in their careers. Kelley Business School speakers talked a great

By RaeAnn Grossman The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System is a long read and deserves discussion, digestion, analysis, and critical thinking. As someone who has worked on the health plan and the provider side, a public single-payer health care

By RaeAnn Grossman On April 18, 2019, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said, “the rule issued today will give consumers immediate premium relief for 2020 by reducing the federal exchange user fees thanks to successful efforts to improve the efficiency of the exchange.  At CMS we have improved the operations of

By RaeAnn Grossman Let’s talk about the 2020 Part C Risk Adjustment Model The 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 required CMS to augment the risk adjustment model to reflect the number of clinical conditions an individual member may have and to make additional adjustments as the number of conditions

By RaeAnn Grossman On April 1, 2019, CMS released the final call letter for 2020 along with a fact sheet.  The Advance Notice was shared in two parts: Part I on December 20, 2018, and Part II on January 30, 2019, with the Draft Call Letter. As is CMS’ normal

By RaeAnn Grossman Evoke360 empowers better health through real-time data aggregation of disparate sources and systems, intelligently enables care, drives value, aligns care partners, illuminates gaps and successes, and positively impacts quality, care, and risk metrics by line of business and client profile. Medicare Advantage, Commercial, and Medicaid populations are

By RaeAnn Grossman DataLink was founded to bridge the communication chasm between the patient, the physician, and the health plan. DataLink creates one source of truth, Evoke360 is our enterprise platform that communicates the next steps in the care journey, the best prescription for the condition and best decisions for