The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, has released a document titled "Roadmap for Implementing Value Driven Healthcare in the Traditional Medicare Fee-for-Service Program" to serve ...

Health may be priceless, but healthcare is not. With medical costs on the rise, insurance companies and government payers are increasingly asking pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to ...

Led by UPMC Health Plan's Chief Medical Officer, William Shrank, MD, and Chief Pharmacy Officer, Chronis Manolis, RPh – both of whom are nationally-recognized experts in pharmaceutical outcomes ...

During this segment, Dennis Patrick Scanlon, PhD, invites the panelists to discuss whether a common ground can be achieved between state-run Medicaid agencies and private employer-run programs, with ...

Although 30-day mortality rates did not worsen for Medicare beneficiaries at hospitals with high proportions of Black patients compared with other hospitals, gaps in outcomes widened for Black adults ...

With healthcare enrollment currently underway at most companies, looking into cost-effective ways to provide healthcare benefits in the future makes sense. A recent article from the Business Group on ...

During the past two decades in the United States, all major payer types—commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and multipayer coalitions—have introduced value-based purchasing (VBP) contracts to reward ...

The rising cost of healthcare in the U.S. is a major concern. With historically low unemployment in an inflationary environment, the need to compete for top talent remains critical and impacts the ...

When I read my first SNF PPS final rule about 25 years ago, I thought that the start dates for some of its initiatives were so far in the future that they were of no concern. As a young person, my ...

CEO compensation data are from fiscal year 2017 Internal Revenue Service 990 forms. Medicare value-based purchasing data are from fiscal year 2017. Exhibit 1 reveals several key points. First, there ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed home health rule aimed at accelerating the shift to value by expanding the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model nationwide. The ...