Value-based payment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2016.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday introduced legislation (H.R. 3298) that would establish a value-based purchasing program for home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals beginning Oct. 1, 2019.
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to articulate how it intends to coordinate implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting and Value-Based Purchasing programs with the Nursing Home Quality Initiative.
The Class of 2017 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.
Innovations and adaptations toward value-based care, and appreciating the differences in the hospital field, are key to strengthening the delivery of health care, says AHA board member James Leonard, M.D…
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free two-part webinar on managing population health and risk in the new care delivery and payment environment. Presenters from Navigant Healthcare discuss the transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value and various provider-sponsored…
At a White House event with President Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell today kicked off the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum for public-private partnerships to advance health care payment models that promote quality and value.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today launched the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network to provide a forum for public-private partnerships to help the U.S. health care payment system meet or exceed recently established Medicare goals for value-based payments…
A new private-sector alliance of health care providers, purchasers, payers and others aims to accelerate value-based payment and align private- and public-sector approaches, the group announced yesterday.
The Department of Health and Human Services aims to tie 30% of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative payment models and 85% to quality or value by 2016, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced today. The plan calls for increasing these proportions to 50% and 90%, respectively, by…
Building off the 2013 HPOE guide on value-based contracting this guide provides additional financial resources.