CMS will host a conference call for providers on its Value-Based Purchasing Program from 1:30-3:00 pm on Dec. 6. The call will outline the program and feature a sample hospital-specific performance ...

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 ...

CMS has proposed to begin a Medicare value-based purchasing program in 2013, two years earlier than the reform law requires, according to an American Medical News report. Under President Obama’s ...

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 ...

CMS is hosting an open forum teleconference on and seeking comments about a future ASC value-based purchasing program. Such a program is required by the Accountable Care Act. CMS is seeking input on a ...

More than 1,800 hospitals will see payments from the federal government rise in 2016 due to improvements in quality under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services value-based purchasing program, ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, has released a document titled "Roadmap for Implementing Value Driven Healthcare in the Traditional Medicare Fee-for-Service Program" to serve ...

A Medicare hospital quality improvement program has failed to yield reduced mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure 4 years into the program, a new study has found.

Health may be priceless, but healthcare is not. With medical costs on the rise, insurance companies and government payers are increasingly asking pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to ...