The shift from fee-for-service payment models to those based in value has been occurring steadily over the past few years. Increasingly, providers are determining physician pay through a number of ...

Providers must prepare both for shifting demographics and a new “Fee-for-Value” system that will continue to shift how the government pays for skilled nursing care, the head of the nation’s top ...

The trend toward value-based payment for healthcare services is gaining momentum. For better or for worse, we have paid for healthcare in the U.S. on a fee-for-service basis – from the perspective of ...

Anthem is joining other health insurers in the shift from traditional fee-for-service medicine to value-based pay, according to a Forbes report. Anthem CEO Joe Swedish told Wall Street analysts and ...

The traditional fee-for-service (FFS) healthcare model isn’t well-suited to meet the complex needs of patients with chronic illnesses including chronic kidney disease (CKD). As costs spiral and ...

Among more than 3 million Medicare Advantage enrollees, value-based payment models outperformed fee-for-service models for all 15 clinical quality outcomes. The mean score differences for blood ...

Value-based care has been slowly gaining traction in the U.S. Some Rhode Island providers are trying to transition their practices away from fee-for-service and toward value-based care The key ...

In the continuing effort to increase quality and decrease costs, health plans and providers are shifting from volume-based care to a value-based reimbursement structure. Value-based reimbursement ...

Primary care physicians are often called the quarterbacks of healthcare because they coordinate and direct patients’ journeys through the medical system. On a typical NFL team, the quarterback is the ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

On Jan. 1, CMS launched the latest value-based care model known as the Transforming Episode Accountability Model, or the TEAM ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...