Value-based payment
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack yesterday hosted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on a special AHA Town Hall webcast focused on the current regulatory landscape.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced refinements to the Medicare Advantage Valued-Based Insurance Design Model for calendar year 2019, the third year of the demonstration program. The model is designed to test whether giving MA plans flexibility to offer…
AHA comments on CMS's request for information on a new direction for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
Leaders from Jamaica and Flushing Hospitals, a safety-net hospital system in Queens, NY, will share how to apply value-based principles to radiology during a Sept. 14 webinar hosted by the AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and the American College of Radiology. For more information or to register…
Physician practices that served a disproportionate share of medically and socially high-risk patients in the first year of the Medicare Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier Program were more likely to receive a penalty compared with other practices, according to a study published today in the…
Changes to the Medicare Post-Acute Care Value-Based Purchasing Act (H.R. 3298) do not go far enough to address the underlying problems with the legislation, AHA today told the bill’s sponsors, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced refinements to the design of the second year of the Medicare Advantage Valued-Based Insurance Design Model. The model, announced last year, will test whether giving MA plans flexibility to offer supplemental benefits or…
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, the AHA last week told leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees.