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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FFS claims submission process is still the primary means for capturing the broader encounter data needed for VBP analysis and payment. Value-based purchasing (VBP) has been part of the national ...

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 ...

New bipartisan legislation introduced in the House aims to reform Medicaid to enable the use of value-based purchasing agreements in Medicaid. The Medicaid VBP Act, released Tuesday, aims to ensure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...