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 ...

With a huge wave of new beneficiaries looming and forecasted Medicare trust fund depletion by 2017, CMS aims to aggressively curtail expenditures wherever it can. While no healthcare sector is being ...

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 ...

CMS has released a proposed rule on value-based purchasing, which involves paying hospitals for performance on quality measures, according to a release by CMS. Currently, CMS pays hospitals simply for ...

During the CMS Health Equity conference, the “Implementing Health Equity Through Value-Based Care for People in Medicare” session featured a series of expert speakers who shared insights on pioneering ...

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 ...

CMS authors provide an update to a July 2022 Forefront publication: Since then, CMS has promulgated several final rules for both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage, announced new alternative ...

RICHMOND, Va — Why is Virginia's Medicaid agency awarding the state's lowest quality nursing homes millions of dollars in bonus payments that are meant to reward quality? That's the question some ...