How We Leverage Alternative Payment Models to Provide High-Quality, Cost-Efficient Care
A VITAS partnership provides a superior care pathway for alternative payment model (APM) and advanced alternative payment model (AAPM) participants whose populations include high- and rising-risk patients. Usually, these are patients with costly advanced illness with multiple comorbidies that are not optimally managed.
![Five percent of patients require intensive care management, 15 to 35 percent need chronic disease management, and 60 to 89 percent require prevention and access.](/-/media/images/for-healthcare-professionals/partner-organizations/alternative-payment-models/alternative-payment-model-circle-infographic-b26444dmkt-2.png)
Why Partner with VITAS?
When you work with VITAS, we:
- Provide tools and education to identify patients with advanced illness who are hospice-eligible.
- Facilitate goals-of-care conversations and advance care planning to align care plans with patient preferences
- Deliver comprehensive, team-based care through a multidisciplinary, patient-centered approach
- Create and regularly update personalized, patient-centered care plans
- Provide care that is titrated to meet the needs of the patient and keep them comfortably at home, eliminating calls to physician, ambulance or hospital
- Serve as an appropriate secondary site of care for high- and rising-risk patients
![Shifting the risk to VITAS can be advantageous for alternative payment models participants.](/-/media/images/for-healthcare-professionals/partner-organizations/alternative-payment-models/alternative-payment-model-scale-infographic-b26444dmkt.jpg)
Results: Measurable and Tangible
Contact VITAS to discuss opportunities to enhance your care coordination efforts with your high- and rising-risk patients.