Value-based care models in oncology must be adaptable to balance quality, cost, and patient outcomes amid evolving clinical practices and cost structures. Advanced therapies complicate payment model ...

AHA pushes value based care emphasizing alternative payment models and rural hospital support in Medicare and CHIP modernization efforts.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, or LDI, recently announced two new grant awards.

In the world of Medicare Advantage, a disturbing shift is occurring. What began as a noble push toward value-based care has increasingly morphed into an aggressive pursuit of value-based payment ...

The SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program is shifting from a single readmission-focused metric to a broader evaluation of SNF performance.

While the federal government has moved forward implementation of value-based payment initiatives such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, many states are making their own initiative ...

Health care costs in the United States are rising every year, leading to poorer patient outcomes, high out-of-pocket payments, and a consolidated market. One factor driving this rise is how siloed our ...

The considerable hype around blockchain is starting to be tempered by enterprises earning practical experience and identifying worthwhile use cases for the technology. Most of the buzz around ...

There is no doubt that the government is accelerating its shift to value-based payments, where physicians are rewarded — to an increasing extent — for quality, rather than quantity of care. And it’s ...

Among the many sweeping changes to the Medicaid program included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), Congress established new statutory caps on state-directed payments (“SDPs”) in Medicaid ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

CMS posted its fact sheet for the Value-Based Payment Modifier Program for 2016. The value modifier was applied to physician payments beginning January 2015 under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ...