Author: Dorron Blumberg

Philanthropist Herbert Wertheim joins Scripps Research Board of Directors

March 22, 2021 – Herbert Wertheim, OD, DSc, MD (hc), an accomplished scientist, clinician, engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has been named to the Board of Directors at Scripps Research. Active in service to the southern Florida community for over 50 years, Wertheim has contributed greatly to public education, cultural arts and community healthcare.

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Technology Holds Promise for Heart Health

March 22 2021 – While technology has always been an integral part of modern society, its usefulness has certainly seen an exponential boom since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.  It is scary to imagine what it would have been like for teachers, therapists, and school age children to navigate the year-long pandemic without using tablets and smartphones as academic tools.  As technology becomes more fluid in today’s culture, it is natural to combine its use with traditional behavioral and physical health services to create higher degrees of resilience during these tough times.

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CreakyJoints Saves Free Arthritis Clinic and Renames It the John Whelton Arthur Virshup CreakyJoints South Florida Arthritis Clinic

March 22, 2021 – CreakyJoints®, the multi-cultural digital arthritis community for patients and caregivers worldwide and part of the Global Healthy Living Foundation (GHLF), today announced that in 2021 they will provide administrative, education, support, advocacy and research to the newly named John Whelton Arthur Virshup CreakyJoints South Florida Arthritis Clinic.

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NAACOS Asks HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to Grow Medicare ACO Programs

March 22 2021 – The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) in a letter sent today congratulated Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on his confirmation and recommends the following to help support ACOs and payment and delivery reform: 
 
•Set a national goal to have a majority of traditional Medicare beneficiaries in an ACO by 2025;
•Strengthen incentives to attract new ACOs and retain existing ones by increasing shared savings rates, fixing key benchmarking and risk adjustment issues, allowing more time before requiring risk, and revisiting recently finalized quality policies;
•Improve the Professional and Global Options of Direct Contracting to provide a fair opportunity for legacy ACOs and providers;
•Make the Next Generation ACO Model permanent; and
•Adapt ACO and alternative payment model methodologies to account for COVID-19 anomalies.
 

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