The Virginia Hospital Shared Services Corporation, VHHA Shared Services, was founded by the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association in 1980 to deliver an array of products and resources to help Virginia hospitals and health systems improve their clinical, financial, and operational performance.
On this website you will learn about VHHA’s range of services, as well as information regarding how VHHA Shared Services evaluates and selects vendor partners who can deliver breakthrough performance in areas needed by today’s dynamic Virginia health care organizations.
Revenue share earned from these relationships helps offset VHHA expenses and strengthens the value of VHHA programs.
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VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast recently featured an interview with Alan Hardwick, a National Business Development Executive with Cordant Health Solutions. Hardwick discusses his career, the innovative laboratory service and pharmacy solutions work done by Cordant and how it helps health care providers combat the opioid epidemic, and how that work is personal to him because he lost a brother to a drug overdose.
VHHA Shared Services Member Program Enhances Value Care Services for 65-Plus Patients
Over the next decade, the U.S. population of people 65 and older is projected to grow more than 30 percent. Due to the expense of treating this population, and its utilization of health care services, Medicare remains in a virtual sprint to issue proposed and final rules to implement value care services to reduce costs and enhance quality while encouraging providers to implement these care programs with the incentive of additional reimbursements. To assist Virginia hospital and health system members in serving this specific patient population, VHHA Shared Services has partnered with Engage Practice Solutions to create CareWorks/65. Read More
Episode Analysis, Selection Key to Earning Additional Medicare Payments via BPCI-A
Does your organization participate in BPCI-Advanced (BPCI-A), or has your organization submitted an application to participate in the program? If so, three years of historical claims data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is likely heading your way. The data can be used to help your organization determine its participation in some of the 35 clinical episodes (31 inpatient and four outpatient). BPCI-A is a risk-based program through which financial performance can be significantly influenced based on the selection of the correct episode; participants may earn additional payments from Medicare, though they could owe money back to Medicare if costs are higher than expected. Sg2/Vizient (a VHHA Shared Services endorsed business partner) can help organizations work through voluminous, and potentially confusing, amounts of data they receive and provide them with key analyses designed to help inform episode selections. Read More
