Attend any healthcare conference and you’ll quickly discover that it’s become downright fashionable for healthcare leaders to talk about their unwavering commitment to “value-based care.” The ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF performance in ...

The ACCESS Model signals a shift toward outcome-aligned payments and a necessary reframing of what “value” actually means. For nearly 2 decades, value-based care has hovered on the edge of its promise ...

Nursing home leadership should intensify efforts to include their medical directors in regular team meetings, analyses of care issues and agenda-setting, according to a physician expert, who added ...

Does every nursing home need a value-based care strategy today? The answer, says Brian Fuller, ATI Advisory’s new managing director of value-based care design and delivery, is “unequivocally yes.” The ...

Preventing or delaying the onset of end-stage kidney disease is vital. By implementing a results-driven, value-based approach, Dallas Nephrology Associates has demonstrated improved patient outcomes ...

RICHMOND, Va — Why is Virginia's Medicaid agency awarding the state's lowest quality nursing homes millions of dollars in bonus payments that are meant to reward quality? That's the question some ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's Medicaid agency awarded the state's lowest quality nursing homes millions of dollars in bonus cash meant to reward quality. While critics point to that fact as proof the ...

CMS authors provide an update to a July 2022 Forefront publication: Since then, CMS has promulgated several final rules for both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage, announced new alternative ...

Developing professional values is essential in nursing and presents unique challenges for graduate entry nursing students in accelerated programmes. These students have limited time for socialisation ...