Case Studies

Published by Henry Stewart Publications for Management in Healthcare. St. Joseph’s Health, a leading health system serving over 421,000 patients annually across New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area, participates in multiple value-based care programs through its clinically integrated network, St. Joseph’s Health Partners. With the need to reduce readmissions and ensure appropriate length of stay from their growing skilled nursing facility (SNF) network, St. Joseph’s Health began to identify solutions to improve total cost of care. With no way to track patients’ day-to-day care and outcomes once moved from acute to post-acute care, they were seeking current, actionable...read more

St. Joseph’s Health System, a leading provider serving New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area, participates in the MSSP Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Bundled Payment for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) models for Medicare patients. As part of these value-based care initiatives, the health system needed to reduce readmissions from its expanding skilled nursing facility (SNF) network. Without visibility into patients’ daily progress after transitioning to post-acute care, they relied solely on admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) feeds, as well as claims data—all reactive and often delayed. The implementation of Real Time's live post-acute analytics solution gave St. Joseph’s real-time...read more

In July 2019, Real Time Medical Systems launched PDPM Complete, a suite of Interventional Analytics tools designed to help skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) navigate the transition to the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM). By capturing live clinical documentation and providing real-time analysis, the solution enabled SNFs to improve coding accuracy and reimbursement. As PDPM matured, a performance assessment of more than 1,000 facilities utilizing PDPM Complete revealed significant gains in identifying missed coding opportunities and boosting per patient day ($PPD) revenue--averaging an increase of $30.65PPD from improved initial assessments and $35.59PPD from timely IPA submissions. What you will learn: Improve coding accuracy by leveraging...read more

Interoperability and care collaboration continue to drive the future of healthcare. Discover how a major health system in South Central Pennsylvania utilized an interventional analytics software platform to build a collaborative preferred care network with their skilled nursing facilities. See how this initiative helped reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, shorten patient stays, and enhance quality outcomes. It also addressed their biggest challenge--the ability to obtain line of sight into patients care once discharged to the SNF. What You'll Learn: How interventional analytics can improve post-acute care coordination and outcomes. Strategies for building a collaborative care network with SNFs to reduce readmissions....read more