CCTP Facilitation & Management
Loopback Analytics provides innovative solutions to meet requirements for CCTP applicants that span multiple hospitals and post-acute care partners.
Health care reform legislation, specifically Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act, brought about the prospect of substantial penalties for hospitals with high readmission rates. The good news is Section 3026 of the Affordable Care Act provides $500 million in funding to test models for improving care transitions for high risk Medicare patients. On April 12, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it was accepting applications for participation in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP). High readmission hospitals have a compelling opportunity to qualify for funding under CCTP. In order to meet the CCTP application requirements, hospitals and their community-based partners must be capable of managing a portfolio of interventions for high risk patients across the post-acute care continuum. Following are CMS's upcoming submission and review dates for CCTP applications:
March 27 - Applications must be received by March 6th to be considered for this review.
April 10 - Applications must be received by March 20th to be considered for this review.
April 26 - Applications must be received by April 5th to be considered for this review.
May 10 - Applications must be received by April 19th to be considered for this review.
May 30 - Applications must be received by May 9th to be considered for this review.
June 11 - Applications must be received by May 21st to be considered for this review.
June 28 - Applications must be received by June 7th to be considered for this review.
April 10 - Applications must be received by March 20th to be considered for this review.
April 26 - Applications must be received by April 5th to be considered for this review.
May 10 - Applications must be received by April 19th to be considered for this review.
May 30 - Applications must be received by May 9th to be considered for this review.
June 11 - Applications must be received by May 21st to be considered for this review.
June 28 - Applications must be received by June 7th to be considered for this review.
Funds are committed on a first-come, first-serve basis for applications that are approved. Once all the funds are committed, there will be no more applications approved. So….time is short.
Loopback Analytics provides a flexible, cloud-based automated solution to meet requirements for CCTP applicants that span multiple hospitals and post-acute care partners. Specifically, Loopback provides the following services to support the CCTP application process and program implementation:
• Integration of data across the care continuum (hospitals, physician groups and other post-acute care providers)
• Identification of specific patients by condition, diagnosis and payer class who are eligible for post-discharge care transition services
• Identification of target beneficiaries and analytics to support rationale for choosing proposed patient populations
• Documentation of screening process and risk stratification through advanced statistical models
• Identification of target beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions as outlined in the CMS CCTP Solicitation
• Quantification and documentation of expected patient volumes based historical data
• Data analytics for root cause analysis and historical readmission data required by CMS
• Data analytics to support matching of appropriate care transition services to beneficiaries and to determine the intensity of such services
• Documentable methodology for assignment of care transition services
• Embedded communication technologies to facilitate timely, productive, culturally and linguistically appropriate interactions with patients
• Platform to provide alignment with multiple post-discharge care providers
• Documentation to support applicant's capabilities and management strategies as required by CMS
• Data analytics to document prior experience in providing care transition services as outlined by CMS
• Data analytics which enables the collection, aggregation and reporting of quality measures and monthly intervention data to CMS
