Value-based payment
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, AHA told leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees today.
Legislation to create a Medicare value-based purchasing program for post-acute care 鈥渋s too narrowly focused on cutting provider payment rather than promoting 鈥榲alue鈥,鈥 AHA said in a letter today to leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee. 鈥淎HA members are deeply engaged in efforts to provide鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week announced the Medicare Advantage Valued-Based Insurance Design Model, which will test whether encouraging plan enrollees with certain conditions to consume high-value clinical services through reduced cost sharing and other approaches鈥
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposed 3.41% coding cut in its proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system in calendar year 2016. The rule bases the proposed cut on an analysis of nominal case-mix change in CYs 2000 through 2009鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2016.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday introduced legislation (H.R. 3298) that would establish a value-based purchasing program for home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals beginning Oct. 1, 2019.
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to articulate how it intends to coordinate implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting and Value-Based Purchasing programs with the Nursing Home Quality Initiative.
The Class of 2017 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.
Innovations and adaptations toward value-based care, and appreciating the differences in the hospital field, are key to strengthening the delivery of health care, says AHA board member James Leonard, M.D鈥
AHA鈥檚 Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free two-part webinar on managing population health and risk in the new care delivery and payment environment. Presenters from Navigant Healthcare discuss the transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value and various provider-sponsored鈥
At a White House event with President Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell today kicked off the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum for public-private partnerships to advance health care payment models that promote quality and value.