Depending on their experience with value-based payment models, providers may need to invest in new or enhanced operational capacities.

Payer relations executives to know in 2026 are shaping managed care strategies at major health systems and advancing value-based payment models.

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 ...

Risk-bearing provider organizations rely on physicians to achieve cost savings. The literature on physician-mediated interventions to reduce costs is scant and provides little guidance on effective ...

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

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.

THMA announces its 2026 Cardiovascular and Oncology Executive Convenings, bringing together C-suite leaders from major health systems and life sciences companies to address supply-chain disruption, ...

For many years, the American health care system has followed a simple model: Pay providers for the services they deliver. This fee-for-service model, still used today, pays providers based on the ...

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 ...

An Inland Empire housing organization was awarded $1 million from Southern California Association of Governments Awards to ...