Accountable Care

Participants in the program are expected to scale their value-based payments to 30 percent by 2016 and 50 percent by 2018.

Here are ten steps payers and providers can take today to speed their ability to align with value-based models. With a new vallue-based imperative from CMS, there’s simply no time left to delay.

The Next Generation ACO Model will test whether strong financial incentives, coupled with tools to help facilitate better patient engagement and care management, can improve health outcomes and reduce expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries.

The organizations said they plan to shift from a fee-for-service healthcare system to one that is value-based.

Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced a bill to repeal the provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates individuals to get health insurance or pay a penalty.

Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.

Consumer-focused patients are changing everything about how they receive care, and to ignore that is to risk deep losses, panel says.

Reining in the costs for healthcare providers is more complicated than ever.

Trinity Health is set to expand its risk-based care operations, announcing last week that it will partner with Heritage Provider Network to form accountable care networks linking Trinity’s 86 hospitals with the 37,000 physicians in league with Heritage.

The agreement, effective Jan. 1, aims to give Humana Medicare Advantage members better care and lower costs at Aurora's health network.