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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CMS has announced that 1,557 hospitals will receive higher Medicare payments for quality ratings as part of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable ...

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 ...

The 1 May 2023 Federal Register contains a proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise the scoring methodology under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program ...

While some nursing homes have earned incentive pay for reducing their hospital readmissions, the decade-old program that pays for those bonuses has not led to any widespread improvements, a ...

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 ...