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, ...

Health systems are navigating a continued push toward value-based payment models, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) accelerating timelines and signaling a broader expansion of ...

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 ...

Providers will only make a decisive pivot toward value and health generation if the business case for value-based payment (VBP) is compelling and other paths to sustainable revenues are closed off.

Rural health care in Rhode Island is getting a $156 million injection. Here's a look at how the money will (likely) be spent.

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 ...

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edifecs, a Cotiviti business and pioneer in healthcare data interoperability, today announced the next generation of its Population Payment Management platform ...

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 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its proposed payment rules for general acute care ...

A new study published in JAMA Health Forum found that bundled payment programs for outpatient spine surgery significantly reduced healthcare costs and lowered readmission rates among Medicare ...

Experts highlight that applying value-based payment models to atrial fibrillation care requires flexible, team-based approaches focused on reducing hospitalizations, repeat procedures, and stroke, ...

St. Louis-based BJC Health System approaches value-based care not as a single model, but as a continuum that requires alignment across clinical, operational and financial teams. That approach dates to ...