According to a new announcement, Harrington Health is currently negotiating a hospital merger deal with UMass Memorial. The Massachusetts-based health system voted to formally enter into a letter of...
“What healthcare providers really want is to do is the right thing for their patients. They just need sustainable financial support for doing that,” health economist Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, said at the start of an interview...
Medicare will save approximately $18 billion from alternative payment models run by CMS’ Innovation Center (CMMI) between 2017 and 2026, a $16 billion difference compared to predictions from the...
Value-based consulting firms are worth the money, according to provider organizations participating in a recent KLAS survey.
In the report Value-Based Consulting 2019, KLAS analyzed nine consulting...
The Trump administration announced on Monday that it has picked Brad Smith to serve as director of the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI), where he will oversee the development and testing of value-based...
HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is taking steps toward “much needed reform” of Medicare fraud laws, but more can be done to remove the value-based care barriers presented by...
A lot can change in a year. From innovative technologies and value-based care to hospital mergers and acquisitions and new competitors, the healthcare industry has undergone yet another year of immense...
The nation’s most wired provider organizations are investing in revenue cycle management capabilities in order to perform more advanced tasks, like real-time identification and value-based care...
The prominence of value-based incentives in physician compensation programs increased by five to seven percent from 2018 to 2019 across four major specialty categories, according to a SullivanCotter...
As long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) programs transition to value-based payment options, various challenges arise for skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) and other long-term and post-acute care...
The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new policy calling on all medical schools and residency programs to include healthcare economics training related to the structure and financing of the...
Nearly 64,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2016 alone, with opioid overdoses representing over 42,000 of those deaths, more than any previous year on record. It was that figure – as well as many other troubling statistics...
Long-term and post-acute care providers cannot move forward with value-based payment implementation without the support of technology, according to a recent Black Book Research survey.
The survey of...
The current nursing workforce is facing growing pressures on their professional and personal lives due to increased demand for services, nursing shortages, and structural changes in the healthcare...
For over a decade, the healthcare industry has been shifting provider reimbursement from a fee-for-service system to one based on the value of services provided to patients, and new payment models have...
The healthcare industry is slowing phasing out fee-for-service payments for alternative payment models (APM), according to the latest APM Measurement Effort report from the Health Care Payment Learning...
The number of states with Medicaid managed care requiring value-based reimbursement as part of the public healthcare program increased from 22 out of 39 states in 2017 to 28 out of 40 states by 2019, a...
ACEP, an association representing 40,000 emergency physician members, developed and submitted the Acute Unscheduled Care Model (AUCM) to HHS’ Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory...
HHS recently made moves to update the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, two healthcare fraud rules created decades ago that have prevented physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers from...
Hospital merger and acquisition activity through the third quarter of 2019 is running slightly ahead of 2018 levels, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall.
The consulting firm recently reported...
