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Enhance Value-Based Care with Digital Cognitive Assessment

If your organization is primarily driven by improving quality of care, creating cost savings, improving patient satisfaction, and identifying unrealized HCC RAF, you will benefit significantly from our cognitive software solutions.

Increased HCC RAF

Value-based providers need to identify patient with diagnosable dementia who have not yet received a formal diagnosis. Approximately 50% of patients with diagnosable dementia have not been diagnosed. The 2024 HCC RAF for Mild, Moderate, or Severe dementia is 0.341, translating into an additional $3,547 per patient annually7.

Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations

  • The Department of Health and Human Services has stated that 23.5% of all hospitalizations of dementia patients are 100% preventable5. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, dementia patients are admitted to the hospital twice as frequently as cognitively normal patients and the length of their stays are 4.6 times longer, further compounding this problem5.
  • Boston Cognitive Care Plan™ software identifies the needs of both the caregiver and the patient, ensuring they have access to adult day care, respite care, and the community services they both need to keep their loved one safely at home and out of the hospital.

Delayed Dementia Onset

  • According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Medicare spends an additional $18,256 every year for patients with dementia compared to patients with similar comorbidities without dementia.
  • The 2024 Lancet Commission stated that up to 45% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors for dementia.
  • Cognitive care plans assist healthcare providers to identify treatable medical conditions that contribute towards cognitive decline and educate patients and caregivers on the modifiable lifestyle risk factors for dementia.
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Complete Advance Directives

  • Addressing Advance Directive needs is a required element of a cognitive care plan. Approximately two out of three adults do not have an advance directive, which can significantly increase the cost of managing the patient’s end of life.
  • One study showed an ACO saved $9,500 per patient due to advance directives6.

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Footnotes

1 University of Michigan’s Natonal Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA), 2023.

2 Alzheimer’s Dement. 2021;17:1231–1243.

3 Based upon current National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits. Please check with your local payor policy.

4 National Average Payment Amount

5  https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/dementias/reduce-proportion-preventable-hospitalizations-older-adults-dementia-dia-02

6 Journal of Palliative Medicine Volume 21, Number 4, 2018

7  https://www.cms.gov/files/document/2024-announcement-pdf.pdf