Half of hospital and health system senior executives say physician engagement is the top barrier to their organization’s participation in the Value-Based Purchasing Program, according to a Forbes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amerinet, a national healthcare solutions organization, has announced the launch of a new web-based value-based purchasing tool, according to an Amerinet news release. The tool — called the Amerinet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

More than 1,800 hospitals will see payments from the federal government rise in 2016 due to improvements in quality under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services value-based purchasing program, ...

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 ...

Doctors Hospital of Augusta has been named a top large-sized hospital for 2025. The hospital received this recognition from ...

Just over three-quarters of health system and hospital C-suites say they plan to increase value-based care model participation within the next two years, up from the 57% who indicated similarly back ...

As the transition to value-based care (VBC) continues to present both opportunities and challenges, post-acute care (PAC) remains a significant cost driver for health plans. Traditionally overseen ...