Care Management Assessment

The Care Management Assessment Service leverages Health Catalyst's extensive expertise in care management strategy and operations to evaluate your organization’s current care management infrastructure, capabilities, and opportunities; define your optimal future state; and deliver actionable short- and long-term recommendations to improve care across the continuum and drive success in value-based care arrangements.

The problem

Care management is a foundational component of most population health management strategies—a key lever for improving care quality and reducing costs. Yet for many organizations, success in care management has proved to be a challenge, due in part to deficits in initial evaluation and planning:

• Alignment: Organizations need to ensure that programs optimally support payer contracts, serve overall system strategy, and respond to the emerging needs of their patients.
• Clarity: Leaders need a credible and unbiased account of their organizations’ care management position, comprehensive insight into areas of opportunity, and a clear path forward toward success.
• Partnership:To manage the breadth and complexity of care management, organizations need side-by-side support from experts who engage with their organization’s unique challenges.

Our approach

Bringing a wealth of analytic, operational, clinical, and financial expertise to the engagement, our team conducts a comprehensive assessment of your organization's current care management infrastructure, capabilities, and opportunities. Based on this insight and in concert with your priorities, the team delivers targeted recommendations for implementing programs that are grounded in current contractual and cultural realities, informed by a careful accounting of ROI, and aligned with the overall strategies of your organization.

Benefits and components

• Disciplined approach: The service uses a proven scoring tool that generates data to help gauge your organization’s readiness for care management improvement.
• Nationwide experience and perspective: When you work with our team, you partner with experts with years of cumulative experience in care management and benefit from our experience working with health systems facing similar challenges.
• Rational roadmap:The assessment helps define achievable and meaningful care management goals and outlines a path to reach them. Our recommendations include short- and long-term strategies and milestones that help you manage risk while moving forward.