Boston-based Partners Healthcare, anchored by renowned academic medical centers Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's, collects about $6 billion in cash a year and processes millions ...

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 ...

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 ...

While value-based payment models seem great in theory, research shows that many primary care providers aren’t partaking in these models. Over the last 14 years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transitioning from fee for service into value-based care has big challenges for health systems. But it doesn’t have to become a monumental change. John Herman, CEO of Penn Medicine Lancaster Health, ...

The healthcare landscape is shifting — fast. As the industry moves away from fee for-service and toward value-based care, practice groups must rethink how they deliver and get paid for care. But ...

CMS is applying pressure on health systems to transition from fee-for-service to value-based care by 2030. While value-based care has been discussed for years, many institutions are not yet fully ...

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 ...

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is a big deal. The fee schedule determines what services are covered for what price. When setting the fee schedule, policymakers seek to balance a number of goals ...