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, ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has piloted more than 50 alternative payment models (APMs) ...

So how are these seemingly unrelated topics Cloud and Value Based Payments related? Both of these things are happening in the healthcare industry. Is one affecting the other? I would say yes. Value ...

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, ...

A 2016 national research study by ORC International and commissioned by McKesson found that the industry has arrived at a tipping point toward full value-based payment. McKesson experts Tomer Levy, ...

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 ...

Among more than 3 million Medicare Advantage enrollees, value-based payment models outperformed fee-for-service models for all 15 clinical quality outcomes. The mean score differences for blood ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CMS launched a value-based care model on Jan. 1 known as the TEAM model. It coordinates the care of patients on ...

The trend toward value-based payment for healthcare services is gaining momentum. For better or for worse, we have paid for healthcare in the U.S. on a fee-for-service basis – from the perspective of ...

On Wall Street, health executives love to talk about “value-based care.” Since 2011, the term has popped up in earnings calls 1,800 times, health news website Stat reported in early December. The ...

Tasked with reducing healthcare costs while offering more comprehensive care, health plans and providers are reconsidering their approach. Traditionally, the healthcare system operated under a fee-for ...