AHA pushes value based care emphasizing alternative payment models and rural hospital support in Medicare and CHIP modernization efforts.

The result is that value-based care now suffers from a branding problem. The term has come to mean everything and nothing at ...

Value-based care models in oncology must be adaptable to balance quality, cost, and patient outcomes amid evolving clinical practices and cost structures. Advanced therapies complicate payment model ...

In the world of Medicare Advantage, a disturbing shift is occurring. What began as a noble push toward value-based care has increasingly morphed into an aggressive pursuit of value-based payment ...

The considerable hype around blockchain is starting to be tempered by enterprises earning practical experience and identifying worthwhile use cases for the technology. Most of the buzz around ...

There is no doubt that the government is accelerating its shift to value-based payments, where physicians are rewarded — to an increasing extent — for quality, rather than quantity of care. And it’s ...

On October 31, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule for the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which finalized the Ambulatory Specialty ...

Healthcare organizations around the country are implementing value-based care strategies that focus on patient outcomes rather than the volume of healthcare services they deliver. The fee-for-service ...

Among the many sweeping changes to the Medicaid program included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), Congress established new statutory caps on state-directed payments (“SDPs”) in Medicaid ...

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

CMS has announced a new expanded initiative for bringing value-based repayment to primary care. The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program, builds on the Comprehensive Primary Care program ...

CMS posted its fact sheet for the Value-Based Payment Modifier Program for 2016. The value modifier was applied to physician payments beginning January 2015 under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ...