Value-based payment models focused on care delivery, such as accountable care organizations and specialty care models, provide an avenue for aligning quality measures, gain/risk sharing, and data ...

Making true progress toward value-based care requires buy-in and understanding from physicians—and for them to be willing to find common ground with insurers for collaborating. With that backdrop, ...

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 ...

While value-based payment models seem great in theory, research shows that many primary care providers aren’t partaking in these models. Over the last 14 years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Increased investment in primary care coupled with financial models that provide greater flexibility and enhanced accountability ultimately improve health outcomes, lower costs, and improve access. The ...

Many healthcare delivery organizations have adopted some form of value-based payment model in recent years, shifting the healthcare focus from quantity of services to quality of outcomes. In a ...

Many providers are finding they don’t yet have the resources to participate in or take on the risks associated with accountable care organizations. But it’s not an all-or-nothing situation. In fact, ...

The Healthcare Financial Management Association asked 117 senior financial executives how hospitals, physicians and payers are feeling about using value-based payment models. HFMA randomly selected ...

Progressive care management approaches can enable meaningful, patient-centric outcomes without assuming risk. In Fresno, California, a woman receiving ongoing cancer treatment shared with her clinical ...

There is no doubt that the government is accelerating its shift to value-based payments, where physicians are rewarded — to an increasing extent — for quality, rather than quantity of care. And it’s ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years ago, policymakers had an epiphany: The health care system should pay for value instead of volume. Unfortunately, it’s now less clear than ever what value-based payment ...

A research letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for careful consideration of the design and consequences of health disparity incentives in future value-based payment models.