In a letter to CMS, the AHA and other nationwide hospital organizations recommended at least seven ways to restructure the agency’s value-based purchasing program to assess hospital performance and ...

CMS has released a proposed rule on value-based purchasing, which involves paying hospitals for performance on quality measures, according to a release by CMS. Currently, CMS pays hospitals simply for ...

A healthcare revolution is underway and a fundamental change in healthcare delivery and payment models is taking place. Providers are consolidating into large systems and payments are being aligned ...

Health may be priceless, but healthcare is not. With medical costs on the rise, insurance companies and government payers are increasingly asking pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to ...

“Value-based care” (VBC) is one of the most frequently cited goals in U.S. healthcare reform — yet its meaning remains frustratingly vague and often contradictory. We hear that value-based care is the ...

More than 1,800 hospitals will see payments from the federal government rise in 2016 due to improvements in quality under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services value-based purchasing program, ...

Just over three-quarters of health system and hospital C-suites say they plan to increase value-based care model participation within the next two years, up from the 57% who indicated similarly back ...