The American Hospital Association has submitted comments to CMS in regard to the value-based purchasing component of the proposed 2012 hospital outpatient prospective payment system, saying “CMS has ...

CMS recently issued final rules for its value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Beginning in fiscal year 2013, which starts on Oct. 1, 2012, CMS will offer hospitals an incentive payment for ...

We delineate three major design flaws in current programs that impede expansion of value-based payment, and how they can be fixed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has committed to ...

While some nursing homes have earned incentive pay for reducing their hospital readmissions, the decade-old program that pays for those bonuses has not led to any widespread improvements, a ...

Although 30-day mortality rates did not worsen for Medicare beneficiaries at hospitals with high proportions of Black patients compared with other hospitals, gaps in outcomes widened for Black adults ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services has postponed a Dec. 6 conference call on the Fiscal Year 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. Once the agency determines a new date for the call, ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...