This article is based on a discussion with Patrick Hoertt, Vice President of Business Development at Theoria Medical. This discussion took place on September 11, 2024 during the SNN RETHINK Conference. Skilled Nursing News: Let’s dive in with an overview of Theoria Medical and its role in value-based care within skilled nursing. Patrick Hoertt: Theoria […]
Some physician groups have decided to join the accountable care organization (ACO) REACH programs to better serve high needs groups given that the nursing home sector is gravitating toward value-based care – the trend being especially true if patients are already aligned with an ACO through their primary care provider. Theoria Medical, for one, made […]
Physicians are needed more than ever in a nursing home, industry leaders and researchers say, as the sector continues to move toward a setting with higher acuity patients. And the role may become more attractive to prospective clinicians as the post-acute care setting isn’t “tainted by bureaucracy in medicine,” according to Dr. Justin DiRezze, CEO […]
While the Biden administration’s overprescription reform in nursing homes focuses mostly on antipsychotics, research has found that other disease treatments – including medication for type 2 diabetes – are overprescribed as well. About 40% of nursing home residents with type 2 diabetes were either overtreated or potentially overtreated, according to results published in the Journal […]
The Biden administration’s recent efforts to further reduce inappropriate medications in nursing homes has been a multi-year endeavor for industry leaders, but many in the space believe there is still a long way to go. As part of the administration’s nursing home reforms, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch a new […]
GAPS Health hopes to continue its explosive growth in the new year, by way of skilled nursing facility (SNF) partnerships and acquisitions of smaller physician practices. Dallas-based GAPS provides medical directorships to SNFs across the U.S. – the company has only been around since 2019 but is already in more than 350 facilities as of […]
A medical director has to be more “engaged” than ever in its nursing home’s everyday operations at a time when facilities continue to see an influx of higher acuity patients, Dr. Justin Di Rezze, CEO of Theoria Medical, said. Di Rezze said that while nursing homes were beginning to see more medically complex patients before […]
For skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the major benefit of telemedicine is that it brings medical services to patients — and assistance to care providers — that might otherwise remain out of reach, at a moment’s notice. But telemedicine only thrives when the people on the ground want to use it and know how to get […]
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