In a letter to CMS, the AHA and other nationwide hospital organizations recommended at least seven ways to restructure the agency’s value-based purchasing program to assess hospital performance and ...

BJC executives key questions reveal how the health system aligns clinical, financial and operational teams for value-based care success.

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 ...

From improving outcomes for vulnerable, post-acute patients to building collaborative networks using real-time data for measurable impact, it can take several different approaches to deliver quality ...

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 Trump administration is floating a 2.4% pay raise for inpatient hospitals' payments for fiscal year 2026, alongside adjustments to quality reporting programs and a call for public suggestions on ...

Value-based care models remain key targets to improve quality of care and reduce costs to patients, but poor visibility and ...

Acute care hospitals get a 2.6% payment increase under a final rule released Thursday afternoon by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This reflects a projected 2026 hospital market basket ...

For health systems, providing effective value-based care involves having foundational building blocks, this chief clinical officer says. Stephanie Duggan, MD, the chief clinical officer of SSM Health, ...