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 ...

In a recent Premier healthcare alliance webinar, Danielle Lloyd, senior director for reimbursement policy, and Christine Van Dusen, senior consultant, made the following points about CMS’ upcoming ...

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 ...

When viewing healthcare’s transition to a value-based purchasing model, providers that haven’t taken the critical steps forward may be intimidated and paralyzed with indecision because of all the ...

A Medicare hospital quality improvement program has failed to yield reduced mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure 4 years into the program, a new study has found.

It's still early days for value-based care. The VBC landscape today is characterized by widespread but sometimes superficial adoption. While many health systems have initiated value-based care ...

RICHMOND, Va — Why is Virginia's Medicaid agency awarding the state's lowest quality nursing homes millions of dollars in bonus payments that are meant to reward quality? That's the question some ...

The term “value-based care” is tossed around like a political football among healthcare policy makers. Nowhere is the meaning of this so variable as in nursing homes. The Nursing Home Value-Based ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's Medicaid agency awarded the state's lowest quality nursing homes millions of dollars in bonus cash meant to reward quality. While critics point to that fact as proof the ...