In the continuing effort to increase quality and decrease costs, health plans and providers are shifting from volume-based care to a value-based reimbursement structure. Value-based reimbursement ...

Medicare’s opioid treatment benefit unintentionally encourages underuse of psychosocial services. The authors propose a ...

For nearly two decades, Leo Spector, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and CEO of Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina, has been working toward a different model for delivering orthopedic care. At ...

Will you be ready to have 90% of payments tied to quality metrics by the end of 2018? It is clear that CMS plans to achieve a goal of having 50% of all payments made through Alternative Payment Models ...

Back in 2008, Gabby White, RN, began working with her surgery center’s surgeons, physicians, anesthesiologist and home health to establish bundled rates. Following this collaboration, Newport Beach, ...

Changing payment systems are putting pressure on hospitals to deliver value. Value is defined as quality, for a reasonable price. As hospitals and health systems strive to decrease the costs of the ...

This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands of hospitals across the country. It's called TEAM, and it stands for Transforming Episode Accountability Model.

Selection bias may limit the validity of Medicare's pilot bundled payments for cardiac episodes of care, according to a recent study published in JAMA Cardiology. Hospital-level structural and ...

A new study published in JAMA Health Forum found that bundled payment programs for outpatient spine surgery significantly reduced healthcare costs and lowered readmission rates among Medicare ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Total episode spending in a 90-day episode of care was reduced with a bundled payment model. Physicians and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is further delaying the implementation of bundled payment models that were scheduled to begin on May 20, to January 1, 2018. This affects episode payment ...