Unpredictability in the healthcare industry unnerves hospital leaders, as no one knows the future of the ACA or if the new administration will further alter existing payment reform programs. The ...

Many healthcare delivery organizations have adopted some form of value-based payment model in recent years, shifting the healthcare focus from quantity of services to quality of outcomes. In a ...

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Advocate Physician Partners — a care management collaboration with Advocate that brings together more than 4,500 physicians — are trailblazers in the ...

Without visibility into how clinician decisions impact quality and cost, even the highest-quality doctors are flying blind ...

Value in health care can be defined as high quality of care at a reasonable price. The nearly two-decade quest to develop a health care value-based payment system has yet to produce substantial ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years ago, policymakers had an epiphany: The health care system should pay for value instead of volume. Unfortunately, it’s now less clear than ever what value-based payment ...

In the world of Medicare Advantage, a disturbing shift is occurring. What began as a noble push toward value-based care has increasingly morphed into an aggressive pursuit of value-based payment ...

A value-based payment reflects the concept of the payment for a medical service being determined based on the quality and efficiency of the service rendered by a provider. More and more financial ...

The American healthcare system is shifting away from traditional fee-for-service (FFS) to a new payment model, one that ties provider reimbursement to patient results rather than the quantity of ...

The trend toward value-based payment for healthcare services is gaining momentum. For better or for worse, we have paid for healthcare in the U.S. on a fee-for-service basis – from the perspective of ...

Update: The originally published version of this article did not accurately descibe the Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns initiative and evaluation results. The currect version reflects ...

For health systems, providing effective value-based care involves having foundational building blocks, this chief clinical officer says. Stephanie Duggan, MD, the chief clinical officer of SSM Health, ...