Current & Emerging Payment Models

Through The Value Initiative, the AHA Center for Health Innovation offers hospitals and health systems the right levers to improve health care affordability.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Aug. 3 issued a proposed rule that would update physician fee schedule payments for calendar year 2021.
The AHA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow hospitals receiving periodic interim payments to carry out their accelerated payment repayment at cost settlement, as was initially communicated by the agency.
COVID-19 continues to spread throughout much of the country. Many states are experiencing spikes in cases. Media outlets report a daily total of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the virus. But the financial havoc the pandemic is wreaking on hospital and health system finances is…
On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its calendar year 2021 proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system. Comments on the proposed rule are due to CMS by Aug. 24.
A National Quality Forum task force released a report identifying opportunities to advance safe, appropriate, person-centered care over the next decade.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the first annual report evaluating the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model.
Eligible hospitals that wish to apply to participate in the Medicare Direct Contracting Model but have not yet submitted a nonbinding letter of intent may do so before they apply for the first performance year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
Eligible hospitals can apply through July 6 to participate in the Medicare Direct Contracting Model, which will offer two primary care payment options for hospitals beginning next April.