Month: March 2024

This month’s Gravity Implementation Affinity Group featured Timothy McNeill, RN, MPH from the Partnership to discuss the new calendar year 2024 social needs HCPCS codes. Implementers learned how Gravity SNOMED-CT intervention codes align with and support additional documentation aligned with regulatory and policy drivers.

Thank you to Civitas Networks for Health for your support of the Gravity Implementation Affinity Group meetings.

Our Partnership to Align Social Care co-chair, Timothy McNeill, RN, MPH, spoke at USAging's Aging Policy Briefing with colleagues from around the nation about the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and how to implement changes in billing codes to better align care between CBOs, health entities, and Area Agencies on Aging.

Tim was joined by Kelly Cronin, Deputy Administrator, Center for Innovation and Partnership, U.S. Administration for Community Living; Doug Jacobs, MD, MPH, Chief Transformation Officer, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services; and Christine Vanlandingham, CEO, Region IV AAA in St. Joseph Michigan.

We encourage you to learn more about these changes in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule here: https://go.cms.gov/4c5f090

Join the Partnership to Align Social Care and Camden Coalition for a monthly peer learning series that provides an opportunity for presenters and participants to go deeper into specific topics related to contracting between CBOs/CCHs and healthcare organizations.

Sessions will allow participants to:

• Participate in peer-to-peer learning about contracting between CBOs, CCHs, and healthcare organizations;
• Learn about and engage with stakeholders and leaders of the Partnership to Align Social Care;
• Find opportunities to support new CCHs and get involved in ongoing national initiatives;
  Generate new learning which can be packaged into future resources and leading practices.

Register for the series and learn more at www.partnership2asc.org/coffee-and-contracts!