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 ...

The 1 May 2023 Federal Register contains a proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise the scoring methodology under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program ...

CMS has postponed its planned Dec. 6 conference call on the Value-Based Purchasing program and will reschedule the call for an undetermined date, according to an AHA News Now report. At the Becker's ...

With a huge wave of new beneficiaries looming and forecasted Medicare trust fund depletion by 2017, CMS aims to aggressively curtail expenditures wherever it can. While no healthcare sector is being ...

While some nursing homes have earned incentive pay for reducing their hospital readmissions, the decade-old program that pays for those bonuses has not led to any widespread improvements, a ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, has released a document titled "Roadmap for Implementing Value Driven Healthcare in the Traditional Medicare Fee-for-Service Program" to serve ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Sept. 24 "listening session" to solicit comments on Medicare's confidential feedback reports for physicians and approaches to implementing a ...

Several Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) programs aim to transform how health care is delivered by adjusting Medicare inpatient hospital payments through a system of rewards and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to face a string of challenges in trying to attract more fee-for-service medical practices to Medicare's accountable care organizations ...

CMS is hosting an open forum teleconference on and seeking comments about a future ASC value-based purchasing program. Such a program is required by the Accountable Care Act. CMS is seeking input on a ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

During the CMS Health Equity conference, the “Implementing Health Equity Through Value-Based Care for People in Medicare” session featured a series of expert speakers who shared insights on pioneering ...