The TRIARQ Health Blog
Care Pathways: A Key For Your Independent Practice Success
Patti Adams with TRIARQ Health unpacks care pathways and how they can keep your independent practice running smoothly.Care pathways are indispensable for independent orthopedic practices that want to run their practice as efficiently as possible. Because care pathways...
Partnerships are Key to Building Effective Care Pathways for Patients
Building and implementing care pathways in the healthcare industry is crucial for delivering effective and coordinated patient care. Care pathways, or care plans or protocols, are structured and standardized approaches to guide the delivery of healthcare services for...
Simplifying Data-driven Decision Making
If you want to improve your practice's financial performance or make an investment, such as adding a new provider, your practice data is crucial for determining if this is the right decision for your practice. This article will show you where to find the data and how...
Maintaining Independence: Harnessing the Power of Primary Care Physician Referrals
There has been a significant trend toward hospital system consolidation and vertical Integration in recent years. This trend has resulted in an increasingly competitive relationship between independent orthopedic specialists and hospitals. Succeeding in this...
Does your billing company cost your practice more than you realize?
If you're considering contracting with a billing company for your medical practice or questioning the effectiveness of your current vendor, it's crucial to take a closer look at the potential issues discussed in this article. While focusing on factors like customer...
Medicare Advantage and the burden of prior authorization: Seeking a balance for patient care
The growing administrative burdens associated with prior authorization requirements continue to frustrate patients and healthcare providers. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage plans, its impact on patients, and...
Data-driven decision making: The key to your independence
In today’s healthcare environment, data is essential for independent practice success. Whether you’re looking to improve your practice’s financial performance or to deliver higher quality, patient-centered care, data and analytics should play a critical role in...
The Future of Independent Orthopedic Practices
AAOS 2023 wrapped up in Las Vegas last week. This event was TRIARQ Health's first large industry conference since COVID; being back among the industry's top surgeons and vendors was invigorating. Great work is happening in the world of orthopedic surgery. Yet, at the...
5 Questions to ask when choosing a Medicare convener
Medicare has opened applications for Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-Advanced) for 2024 and 2025. Many Orthopedic surgeons are pondering whether or not their participation in this program is "worth it." General frustration abounds from some...
What a physician services organization can do for Orthopedic surgeons
Managing a modern orthopedic practice is more challenging than ever. Administrative and compliance burdens balloon and become overwhelming, especially for providers who want to remain independent. Independent practices must be clinically and financially strong to...
Value-based care 101: what is it and when will it be implemented?
As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, independent specialty practices, like Orthopedics, are shifting from traditional fee-for-service-based care to value-based reimbursement. Value-based payment models accounted for 38.2% of healthcare reimbursements in...
3 reasons practices should prepare for value-based care now rather than later
In recent years, value-based care has emerged in the healthcare industry as a new standard for provider reimbursement. Practices across the country are rapidly transitioning into this new reimbursement model, with 36% of providers reimbursed through value-based...