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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...

Several Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) programs aim to transform how health care is delivered by adjusting Medicare inpatient hospital payments through a system of rewards and ...

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 ...

Even though CMS’ Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program linked patient experience scores to hospital reimbursement, the program hasn’t seemed to spur much improvement in HCAHPS scores, according to ...

The value-based payment crusade is now two decades old. But despite the tens of billions of dollars — perhaps hundreds of billions — spent on these programs, they have done little to improve Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...