As part of the Rural Health Transformation Program, 42 states are expanding or establishing new alternative payment models, a recent analysis shows.  | Forty-two states are expanding or establishing ...

With the advent of the ACO programs 15 years ago — Medicare Shared Savings Program was launched as part of the implementation ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan outlines how value-based care rewards quality, improves outcomes and helps control costs.

Penetration of Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations and Medicare Advantage was not associated with substantive changes in health care use among commercial enrollees.

Torrent is a vascular surgeon with the Longstreet Clinic at Northeast Georgia Health Systems. I always feel a heightened ...

Value-based care continues to account for a substantial share of U.S. healthcare payments, underscoring sustained payer investment in payment models that link reimbursement to quality and cost ...

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) has released a white paper urging CMS to develop a value-based care model focused on the needs of the long-term ...

The Electronic Health Record Association tells ASTP/ONC that some unresolved issues make it difficult to comment on specific IT certification proposals. And the American Hospital Association says it ...

As Maryland advances the AHEAD model, physician leaders must translate payment reform into bedside practice and drive clinical redesign, argues this CMO.

For much of the past century, academic medical centers have operated on a straightforward premise: build the best clinical programs, train the next generation of physicians and patients will come. But ...

A healthcare crisis looms in Queens and the rest of New York City according to elected leaders and health officials from ...

For Bob Riney, president and CEO of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, the high cost of healthcare is not a pricing problem — it reflects deeper structural flaws in the current financing system. “I ...