Thanks in part to its recent acquisition of CECity, Premier has won a subcontract from Deloitte for data registry support to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction payment model.
The financial terms of the subcontract agreement with Deloitte were not disclosed.
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Million Hearts is a national initiative to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes. As part of the initiative, CMS launched the Million Hearts: Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model, which is billed as the first project to determine whether financially rewarding physicians for reducing heart attack or stroke risk produces better outcomes.
"Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and costs the nation over $300 billion each year," said Shobhik Chaudhuri, director at Deloitte & Touche, in a statement.
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The model will use risk stratification to help identify Medicare patients most at risk of a first heart attack or stroke in the next year and encourage practices to help reduce these risks through clinical and behavioral interventions.
The five-year Million Hearts model will employ a randomized controlled design with more than 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries and 720 diverse practices. The aim is to find scalable approaches that can reduce the risk of initial heart attacks or strokes – to improving quality while maintaining budget neutrality for Medicare beneficiaries between the ages of 18 and 79 years old.
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While Deloitte will operationalize and monitor the Million Hearts implementation, creating a structured approach data collection and ensuring compliance with federal requirements, CECity will create a cloud-based registry that automates the gathering of clinical, quality and structural data from participants.
CECity’s platform will automate the flow of information directly from physician practices to the Million Hearts clinical data registry, officials said, enabling the quality measures, performance reports necessary for the project to succeed.
Premier will provide the "registry backbone" for Million Hearts "that could support other models and emerging federal value-based payment programs in the future," said Keith J. Figlioli, Premier's senior vice president of healthcare informatics. "We are excited to begin working with CMS and participating practices to fight the risk of heart disease and stroke in our country."
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