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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 deal about being

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 system makes me

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 the exchange to

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 increases. For 2020,

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 process, they accepted

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 very different with

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 the member’s care,

At DataLink, we take our partnership with health plans, ACOs, MSOs, in-home evaluators, medical groups, physicians, and patients very seriously. We grew up being the best at data aggregation and being experts in transparency and performance metrics management.  DataLink ensures value-based or at-risk providers not only have all the tools