Value-Based Payments

America’s nursing homes are in crisis, and the government has been complicit. In the past 2 and a half years, COVID-19 has killed more than 158,000 nursing home residents. These facilities, filled with...

Accountable care organizations must urge Congress to extend a dependable bonus payment to physicians that is ready to expire, advocates say.

America’s nursing homes are at a crossroads. Operators are challenged by a history of insufficient funding under the Medicaid program and eroding Medicare payments. Coupled with long-term care facilities...

CMS’s new Direct Contracting Entity program, known as ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) is among the most important developments in nursing home patient care in recent history. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is strongly emphasizing value-based care payments under President Joe Biden’s administration and might even consider making new models mandatory.

For long-term care and skilled nursing facility operators, wound care plays a significant role in everything from staff efficiencies to outcomes to reimbursement. It’s also an important factor in the...

Readmission rates are being attacked from all sides, and that includes by information technology and software suppliers. Here’s a provider guide to ‘teching-up’