Value Based Payment

HFMA's Chad Mulvany says we won’t know the outcome of the case until sometime in the first half of next year.

HFMA's Chad Mulvany says the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program needs to be simplified to allow all providers to participate without it being overly burdensome.

In the nation's current political climate and the prevailing partisan divide, healthcare is home to six issues where there is political common ground that could lead to bipartisan solutions.

In this HFMA executive roundtable, seven executives for health systems and health plans share how the pandemic has impacted their organization’s move toward value — and what it will take to foster transparency and trust under these models.

An episode-of-care approach may be the best way to address cost variation in maternal care and promote partnerships across the healthcare continuum.

The hospital readmissions reduction program incorrectly penalizes hundreds of hospitals, according to new research.

Coming changes will affect both Medicare bundled payment programs and the looming Direct Contracting program, said the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

An effective value-based compensation system for surgical specialists should not only account for the physician’s service, quality of care and financial performance, but also the extent to which the physician exhibits high standards of citizenship.

Medicare plans to add pandemic-era waivers to its value-based payment models as a way to incentivize provider participation.

Proposed OPPS cuts for 340B hospitals and outpatient payment changes drew the most concerns from hospitals and advocates.