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23 Nov 2022, 16:54 GMT+10
Hospitals that don't make money often end up shut down. While care quality is important, clinics and hospitals that aren't profitable have no future. To ensure that isn't the case, chronic care management solutions like virtual care and remote patient monitoring services are necessary to keep facilities in the green. Here's how they help improve ROI for hospitals and clinics.
Facilities can offer chronic care management through remote patient monitoring technology such as that which leading providers Aura Health provides. Here's the financial potential of RPM reimbursements for facilities of all kinds:
You can get the complete breakdown of Medicare reimbursements from Aura website's page, under Resources. Be sure to pay them a visit to find just how your clinic or hospital stands to gain from using these technologies in your chronic care management process.
Chronic care management traditionally attracts regular physician and patient appointments. For critically ill patients, physicians often have to meet them at their residences, which can be costly as facilities have to fork out allowances for doctors and also meet travel expenses, among other costs.
However, leveraging virtual care solutions in chronic care management can reduce these costs greatly. Physicians can easily follow up with patients regarding their condition and vitals remotely without having to meet them in person. In the end, this means doctors travel less, and thus hospitals also spend less as a whole.
Many factors shape the course of a facility's ROI. Another critical part of the equation upon which ROI also depends is employee productivity. Chronic care management can be tedious work that causes burnout. But with virtual care solutions, clinical employee output improves leading to a better bottom line due to:
ROI for clinics and hospitals isn't always a monetary metric. Patient engagement and satisfaction is also another critical ROI indicator. Chronic care management, with the intervention of RPM and virtual care solutions, can bolster patient-physician relationships by allowing patients to seek on-demand clarification and stay connected with their caregivers.
Thanks to a combination of audio and video technology involved in modern chronic care management solutions, there's better coordination of care, improved health outcomes, and better engagement/satisfaction. In the end, this increases a facility's brand standing and referral appeal.
Lowering readmission rates has obvious benefits for patients but it can also have positive impacts on ROI for care facilities as well. For instance, let's consider the financial repercussions of rehospitalization to put this into perspective:
As you can see, hospitals and clinics have much to gain from improving chronic care management to lower readmissions, and modern technology like RPM and virtual care are the solutions.
Often, care facilities have to bring in specialists to help with chronic care management, especially when it comes to cardiology care. This can mean adding clinical staff to a payment payroll when their services are only needed intermittently.
Modern chronic care management solutions can again help hospitals and clinics dodge this financial bullet. RPM and virtual care solution providers like Aura Health provide these specialists and expertise on a per-use basis, which makes more financial sense and enhances ROI.
More so for patients living in rural areas or remote locations, access to proper chronic care can be a huge headache. This also translates to an ROI problem for facilities, as they are unable to serve patients in certain geographical zones.
However, telehealth chronic care management presents an opportunity for facilities to reach these types of consumers, and thus widen their market reach. On top of that, it also allows facilities to run beyond their occupancy, reserving admissions for high-risk cases while others are tended to remotely.
Conclusion
Chronic care management paves the way for RPM and virtual care technologies that tremendously increase ROI even beyond the financial perspective. RPM programs alone have been shown to improve cost savings for clinics and facilities annually by over $8,375 per patient. So imagine the financial reprieve on a single facility's bottom line when this benefit is magnified by its total patient base. If you'd like to improve your facility's ROI, be sure to visit the Aura Health website for more details.
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