Healthcare leaders are preparing for the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, from outcomes tracking to a focus on ...

Reducing cost-sharing improves patient outcomes by enhancing access to essential care and supporting treatment adherence, especially for vulnerable populations. Michael Chernew's insights influenced ...

Supported value-based care improves prenatal care while reducing neonatal intensive care unit stays, preterm birth rates, low birth weight rates, and costs for mothers and infants. Objectives: ...

If you're leading an insurance agency, you already know healthcare is shifting, and that shift is changing how you sell. Consumers aren't just looking for coverage anymore. They want a healthcare ...

On Wall Street, health executives love to talk about “value-based care.” Since 2011, the term has popped up in earnings calls 1,800 times, health news website Stat reported in early December. The ...

In the world of Medicare Advantage, a disturbing shift is occurring. What began as a noble push toward value-based care has increasingly morphed into an aggressive pursuit of value-based payment ...

What's next when policy can't fix what policy created? Last December, CMS announced that it would terminate the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (MA VBID) model due to “substantial and ...

Basing payment on clinical outcomes rather than the volume of service is increasingly common among medical practitioners, yet value-based reimbursement is less common among mental health practices.

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I am your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 02/06/2025. Before we begin, I wanted to remind listeners that we released a new health policy brief last ...

Behavioral health has lagged behind in the shift to value-based care, and a new paper from experts at Cigna outlines why these providers should consider making the switch along with the barriers they ...

Value-based care has been slowly gaining traction in the U.S. Some Rhode Island providers are trying to transition their practices away from fee-for-service and toward value-based care The key ...