In a letter to CMS, the AHA and other nationwide hospital organizations recommended at least seven ways to restructure the agency’s value-based purchasing program to assess hospital performance and ...

CMS has released a proposed rule on value-based purchasing, which involves paying hospitals for performance on quality measures, according to a release by CMS. Currently, CMS pays hospitals simply for ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

A Medicare hospital quality improvement program has failed to yield reduced mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure 4 years into the program, a new study has found.

“Value-based care” (VBC) is one of the most frequently cited goals in U.S. healthcare reform — yet its meaning remains frustratingly vague and often contradictory. We hear that value-based care is the ...

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 ...

The term “value-based care” is tossed around like a political football among healthcare policy makers. Nowhere is the meaning of this so variable as in nursing homes. The Nursing Home Value-Based ...

Hospitals across the United States are always looking for ways to reduce costs and avoid medical malpractice lawsuits, while not sacrificing quality of health care. So how are hospitals impacted when ...