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, ...

Unpredictability in the healthcare industry unnerves hospital leaders, as no one knows the future of the ACA or if the new administration will further alter existing payment reform programs. The ...

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

Acute care hospitals get a 2.6% payment increase under a final rule released Thursday afternoon by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This reflects a projected 2026 hospital market basket ...

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 ...

From improving outcomes for vulnerable, post-acute patients to building collaborative networks using real-time data for measurable impact, it can take several different approaches to deliver quality ...

To understand how clinicians with high caseloads of socially at-risk patients fare under Medicare’s new outpatient Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), we examined the first (2019) round of ...

On Jan. 1, CMS launched the latest value-based care model known as the Transforming Episode Accountability Model, or the TEAM ...