Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare delivery model that prioritizes patient outcomes over the volume of services provided. This approach aims to enhance the quality of care while controlling costs ...

Adoption of value-based care (VBC) programs has continued to expand. For example, the share of healthcare payments from risk-bearing VBC programs where providers could lose revenue if they did not ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) achieved unprecedented results in 2024, marking the highest savings and ...

Preventative care, robust technology, and dedicated clinicians are key ingredients in the recipe for successful value-based care. Advocate Health generated $135.7 million in savings in 2023 from two ...

Last week, Sue Chapman Moss, Kunu Kaushal and Bill Gammie were featured on the latest episode of HHCN+ TALKS, Home Health ...

Today's Medicare Advantage plans are flourishing and the Silver Tsunami is among the reasons. "Over the last four years, Medicare Advantage enrollment increased by more than 30 percent, while the ...

Healthcare groups are reacting to CMS’ proposed 2026 Physician Fee Schedule mainly with concern, arguing that it needs significant revisions in order to avoid destabilizing providers and undermining ...

CMS is refining its Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design model for 2018. The Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design test was announced in September 2015 to measure if value-based ...

Primary care physicians are often called the quarterbacks of healthcare because they coordinate and direct patients’ journeys through the medical system. On a typical NFL team, the quarterback is the ...

Anesthesia providers are in the process of transitioning to value-based care reimbursement systems and pushing for inclusion in innovative models supported by CMS, according to a Jan. 24 report from ...

Let’s start on the regulatory front (this is a regulatory blog after all!) Last week, the Trump administration released the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda, a “menu” of regulations that the administration ...

In October 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch value-based purchasing, which will impact discharge payment structures for all short-term acute care hospitals. To ...