Cumulus to present at HCBS Conference in Baltimore

Cumulus will participate in a timely session on success with Community Care Hubs at the 2024 HCBS Conference in Baltimore. The Cumulus team will co-present with Bay Aging/VAAACares® CEO Kathy Vesley on Wednesday August 20.

Community Care Hubs (CCHs) align health and social care to meet needs of the whole person, an emerging and increasingly important healthcare trend. Virginia’s VAAACares® is one of our nation’s leading and most successful CCHs. Attendees will leave this informative session with actionable information that they can use to replicate successful CCHs in their communities, including insights into lessons learned.

Community Care Hubs organize and support networks of community-based organizations providing services to address health-related social needs. Community Care Hubs enable community-based and healthcare organizations to work together, fostering a more holistic approach to care.  By handling administrative needs like contracting, healthcare billing, compliance, and technology applications, CCHs help maximize the value of community-based providers for improving healthcare outcomes by addressing health-related social needs.

VAAACares® is a statewide Community Care Hub, developing and maintaining a network of community-based organizations (CBOs) with centralized administrative and operational infrastructure. VAAACares® has contracts with multiple MCOs. Over 45,000 Medicare and Medicaid patients have been assisted by VAAACares®, to date.

VAAACares® leverages Cumulus for managing multiple separate payer contracts, each with their own unique automated workflows, services, forms, and payment models. Through Cumulus, VAAACares® processes incoming payer service referrals and assigns work to partner providers and staff. VAAACares® will soon go live in Cumulus with another service program for a third payer.

Cumulus links medical and social care models together - enabling Community Care Hubs payers, partners, and provider networks to securely process incoming service requests, automate workflows, coordinate care, track activities, and improve outcomes for the people they serve - even when organizations use different IT systems. And all the relevant data needed for billing and tracking is readily available for those who need it.