"The policy efforts in the HITECH/MACRA era, from technical requirements in EHR certification to payment incentives in APMs, did not deliver on the goal of national interoperability by 2018."—Journal ...

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 04/02/2025. As a reminder, we have a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health coming out next week. Be on ...

About 41 percent of U.S. healthcare dollars involve alternative payment models — a 23 percent increase over five years, according to a report from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network.

With the initial jolt of this administration’s first physician pay rule proposal wearing off, long-term care doctors are getting ready to enter a new era of oversight. For the first time, the federal ...

As the U.S. healthcare system continues its shift away from fee-for-service (FFS) toward value-based care (VBC), the prevalence of advanced alternative payment models is increasing. Bundled payments ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston analyzed the effects of BCBS of Massachusetts’ Alternative Quality Contract. Study authors compared changes in clinical quality, health outcomes and ...

On January 1, CMS launched its latest alternative payment model: TEAM, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. The mandatory program requires hundreds of acute care hospitals to participate in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CMS launched a value-based care model on Jan. 1 known as the TEAM model. It coordinates the care of patients on ...

The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee recently completed its two-day public meeting to deliberate and vote on three proposals for physician-focused payment models. The full ...