In the eighth year of Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Payment Program (VBP), there were more winners than losers, but not much change from the prior year. About 55% of the roughly 2,700 hospitals ...

Hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) looks better on paper than it has to date in practice, but Ashish K. Jha, M.D., believes it’s still salvageable with the right approach. In a piece for JAMA, Jha, ...

Over the past decade, both public and private payers have increasingly sought to develop payment policies that emphasize the value of the services provided instead of the quantity. These value-based ...

Hospitals that have implemented talent management and succession planning best practices score higher on metrics in CMS’ Value-Based Purchasing program, which are tied to reimbursement rates for ...

Rewards tied to improved hospital readmission rates were so small and so variable from year to year that they likely contributed to a “lack of effectiveness” for a key nursing home financial incentive ...