Dr Lustick

Dr. Martin Lustick

Senior Vice President
NextGen Advisors

Categories from Dr. Martin's Blogs

Practice Management Provider Experience Integrated Care Value-based Care Revenue Cycle Management Interoperability Patient Experience

Blogs by Dr. Martin

Practice Management

The Claims Data Dilemma: 4 Things to Consider

In providers' ongoing struggle to obtain timely, essential claims data, NextGen Healthcare Advisor Dr. Martin Lustick underscores the obstacles and opportunities.

Practice Management

The Payer Landscape

“Health plan” is a generic term that refers to any organization that provides coverage for healthcare expenses. Examination of the historical context will elucidate the important distinctions between an insurance company and an MCO.

Healthcare Technology

Filling the Cavity Between Dentistry and Medicine

Dentistry has a long and storied history. In Pakistan, evidence was found of a flint crafted drill to treat tooth decay dating back 7,000 years. Today’s challenge is to understand how and why this ancient skill separated from medicine, and what can be done to fill that “cavity”.

Provider Experience

How to Manage Risk in Value-Based Contracts

As providers turn their attention to commercial contracts, they would be well advised to pursue opportunities to manage risk during these particularly uncertain times. Following are some approaches to consider.

Provider Experience

Three Ways a Health Plan Can Help Providers

Just as providers have reimagined their clinical and business models in light of the pandemic, there is an opportunity to reimagine their relationship with health plans.

Integrated Care

How to Integrate Social Services with Healthcare – an Evolving Story

Today we will explore the challenges of implementing effective interventions for SDoH.

Value-based Care

Five Fundamentals for Effective Care

In our continuing exploration of innovative models of care, in this blog we will examine the efforts of the Cambridge Health Alliance(CHA) to advance primary care in the context of a diverse and vulnerable urban population.

Integrated Care

Back to the Future with the Comprehensive Care Physician

In our August 3rd blog we introduced various alternative models of care as a window into potential visions of the future. In this blog, we explore one of those models, the Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) in greater detail.

Value-based Care

Where is the Value in Value-Based Care?

With all the focus on value-based care it’s interesting that there is no single definition of value. In trying to reduce the definition for healthcare to a formula there is general agreement that the denominator of value is cost.

Revenue Cycle Management

Five Reasons Health Plans Make Payment Errors

When the health plan says a claim is lost or they send an incorrect payment, providers often feel like victims of an evil plot. In trying to decipher health plan motives, it may be helpful to consider the scale and complexity of their operations.

Revenue Cycle Management

The Self-Insured Healthcare Market – What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

According to a 2009 CDC report, in the 1990s there were approximately 175 million Americans covered by commercial insurance with about 40 percent (70 million) in self-insured plans. Compare that to a 2019 report showing that commercial coverage was down to 154 million, but the number of people participating in self-insured plans had increased to 92 million, constituting 60 percent of the commercial total.

Healthcare Technology

The Resurgence of the Small Practice

Who says small physician practices are a thing of the past? NextGen Advisor Dr. Martin Lustick points to signs of life in the healthcare universe.

Healthcare Technology

The Resurgence of the Small Practice

Who says small physician practices are a thing of the past? NextGen Advisor Dr. Martin Lustick points to signs of life in the healthcare universe.

Interoperability

Three Ways Interoperability Will Improve Healthcare

To mark NextGen Healthcare's new Cures Act certification, Dr. Martin Lustick looks at the substance behind healthcare's latest buzzword: interoperability.

Interoperability

The "Wonder Years" of Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare Advisor Dr. Martin Lustick gives us a sweeping—and informative!—overview of 60 years of "interoperability."

Interoperability

The "Wonder Years" of Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare Advisor Dr. Martin Lustick gives us a sweeping—and informative!—overview of 60 years of "interoperability."

Value-based Care

How to Reduce Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.

Those of us in healthcare understand that the pandemic represents just one more example of the disproportionate negative impact of health issues on people of color.

Patient Experience

How to Move Healthcare Forward by Looking Back

With our recent blogs on August 3 and August 17 focused on innovative care models, it seems appropriate to pause and review the historical context that served as the foundation for many current innovative efforts. While the focus of today’s article is primary care, many of the learnings have broad applicability.