EXPANDED Admission Criteria: IHANY Medicare ACO Remote Patient Monitoring Program (RPM) We are happy to announce we have expanded the admission criteria for the IHANY Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Remote Patient Monitoring Program (RPM). IHANY Medicare ACO patients that meet the criteria will have no cost to participate in the program. The expanded criteria…
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Welcome to the New Regional CIN Newsletter We are excited to present the first issue of the IHANY-CNYAIM regional newsletter! As St. Peter’s Health Partners (SPHP) in Albany and St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse have restructured and integrated the two regional systems, this newsletter has been developed to better serve our providers and patients in…
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New Year, New Newsletter As we ring in the new year, we are excited to announce an expanded newsletter to better serve our providers and patients. As you know, on July 1, 2022, St. Peter’s Health Partners (SPHP) in Albany and St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse announced the restructuring and integration of the two regional…
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Happy Holidays from Your IHANY Team Reflecting back on the past year, our network has met and addressed challenges we have never faced before. In spite of this, we have continued to find opportunities to innovate and forge ahead to meet our goals as a clinically integrated network (CIN) and accountable care organization (ACO). As…
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MIPS 2023 Payment Adjustment Update IHANY scored 100 out of a possible 100 on our 2021 Merit-Based Incentive PaymentSystem (MIPS) score. As a result of achieving this high score, eligible IHANY physicianswill receive an estimated (additional) 2.33 percent increase in Medicare Part B allowedcharges payments – essentially a bonus – as an “exceptional performance adjustment”from…
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Fast Track to Better Mental Health with apti.health Whether you or your patients are struggling with mild or severe mental illness, help is availablewithout a long wait. IHANY providers are using apti.health to quickly connect patients to an expert care team dedicated to helping with emotional health and wellness. Patients in need of these services…
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Population Health Structure/CIN Changes Please read this communication sent on August 29 by Kristen Mucitelli-Heath, Senior VicePresident, Population Health, Advocacy, St. Joseph’s Health and St. Peter’s HealthPartners, regarding our population health structure.We are glad to share several evolutions of our population health structure across both St.Peter’s Health Partners and St. Joseph’s Health and our associated…
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IHANY Management Consolidation As you may be aware, Trinity Health Chief Operating Officer, Ben Carter, recently shared a message with the colleagues and physicians at St. Peter’s Health Partners and St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse regarding the consolidation of management into a single leadership team for the two health systems. Health care continues to be…
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We Want to Hear Your Story! It Could Save a Life! Many of you will remember seeing our brave SPHP colleague Melissa Zapotocki’s campaign to bring awareness to the importance of early and yearly breast cancer screening (mammogram). As you may know, she herself is a breast cancer survivor, thanks to early detection. Watch her story.…
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Important Reminder for Patients: Crowded Emergency Departments Officials with Albany Medical Center, St. Peter’s Health Partners (including Albany Memorial Campus, Samaritan Hospital, and St. Peter’s Hospital) and Ellis Medicine are warning the public of longer wait times in hospital emergency departments, and asking that people only use emergency departments in true emergency situations. This is…
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