As federal and commercial payers expand bundled and risk-based payment models, orthopedic practices are adapting to new expectations around cost, quality and care coordination. Orthopedics has long ...

Understanding the needs of high-need, high-cost community-based beneficiaries, including homebound status, will help Medicare ...

For health systems, providing effective value-based care involves having foundational building blocks, this chief clinical officer says. Stephanie Duggan, MD, the chief clinical officer of SSM Health, ...

In 2023, direct spending within orthopedics, oncology, cardiology, women's health, behavioral health and nephrology made up 38% of all total ...

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health is rethinking how orthopedic care can succeed under value-based, as well as risk-based, payment models. Eric Makhni, MD, is a sports medicine orthopedic surgeon and ...

To help patients navigate access challenges stemming from cuts under President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, Brian Mulherin, MD, a hematologist-oncologist at the American Oncology Network, ...

New research from Sage Growth Partners notes that “a more substantive transition to value-based care” could be coming — but it has competition. Value-based care isn’t the only priority highlighted in ...

The transition from fee-for-service to value-based care is top of mind for many healthcare organizations as their leadership prepares for 2014. Value-based care, an umbrella term encompassing ideas ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

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 ...

“Value-based care” (VBC) is one of the most frequently cited goals in U.S. healthcare reform — yet its meaning remains frustratingly vague and often contradictory. We hear that value-based care is the ...