The Biden administration is expanding a value-based purchasing model it says rewards home health agencies for high-quality care and saves Medicare money. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

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 ...

As health systems have grown in size and complexity, CEO base salaries and bonuses have steadily increased over the past five years. Board members have attempted to align CEO incentives with those of ...

CMS recently issued final rules for its value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Beginning in fiscal year 2013, which starts on Oct. 1, 2012, CMS will offer hospitals an incentive payment for ...

Led by UPMC Health Plan's Chief Medical Officer, William Shrank, MD, and Chief Pharmacy Officer, Chronis Manolis, RPh – both of whom are nationally-recognized experts in pharmaceutical outcomes ...

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 ...

Although 30-day mortality rates did not worsen for Medicare beneficiaries at hospitals with high proportions of Black patients compared with other hospitals, gaps in outcomes widened for Black adults ...

During this segment, Dennis Patrick Scanlon, PhD, invites the panelists to discuss whether a common ground can be achieved between state-run Medicaid agencies and private employer-run programs, with ...

Payment and quality experts on Wednesday described extensive changes proposed for skilled nursing’s value-based purchasing program as “long overdue” and a way to “reset the playing field.” Since the ...

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 ...

With healthcare enrollment currently underway at most companies, looking into cost-effective ways to provide healthcare benefits in the future makes sense. A recent article from the Business Group on ...

The rising cost of healthcare in the U.S. is a major concern. With historically low unemployment in an inflationary environment, the need to compete for top talent remains critical and impacts the ...