Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...