CMS recently issued final rules for its value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Beginning in fiscal year 2013, which starts on Oct. 1, 2012, CMS will offer hospitals an incentive payment for ...
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 ...
China’s volume-based procurement (VBP) policy has impacted several medical device companies this year, including Medtronic. In fact, Medtronic CFO Karen Parkhill mentioned in February, during the ...
Two decades of innovation reveal mixed findings for quality, cost, and utilization—and unclear ways to resolve. The results are in on the impact of value-based payments (VBP) and once again, they're ...
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 ...
We delineate three major design flaws in current programs that impede expansion of value-based payment, and how they can be fixed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has committed to ...
At the end of March 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance to drug manufacturers and states on reporting Medicaid Best Price under value based purchasing (VBP) ...
Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to published results, the Medicare value-based purchasing program was not associated with improved ...