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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medicare’s upcoming health equity adjustment in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program will reduce disproportionate penalization among safety net hospitals and those serving high ...

Financial implications do not include high-stake bonus payments, but NIH data shows patients are willing to pay more, and ...

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 ...

Most hospitals were in the middle of the pack ...

Amerinet, a national healthcare solutions organization, has announced the launch of a new web-based value-based purchasing tool, according to an Amerinet news release. The tool — called the Amerinet ...