When the conversation shifts toward value-based care (VBC), hospital systems find themselves in a delicate balancing act. On one hand, VBC strategies compel providers to prioritize preventive, ...

“My advice is simple—ditch the PowerPoint presentations and start asking better questions. Ask your clients,‘What’s your biggest source of revenue and what are your biggest risks to that revenue?’ ...

Value-based agreements come with risks and benefits, but a health system’s existing facilities and initiatives can help support the goals associated with them, JT Lew, PharmD, MBA, a managed care ...

Health systems moving toward a value-based care delivery model need to adjust several operational factors to be successful. This includes creating pathways for a better patient experience as well as ...

His vision for the platform is for ASCs to fully incorporate it into their practice and eventually utilize it to collect metrics about their performance that can help negotiate better rates with ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Kaiser Permanente caused a stir when it announced nearly two years ago that its new nonprofit subsidiary, Risant Health, was acquiring 10-hospital Geisinger Health. It marked the ...

Primary care providers and oncologists play distinct roles in a patient’s cancer care journey, and both are crucial to ensuring that cancer is managed in a way that factors in current best practices ...

Basing payment on clinical outcomes rather than the volume of service is increasingly common among medical practitioners, yet value-based reimbursement is less common among mental health practices.