A study suggests that safety-net hospitals performed more poorly than other types of hospitals on nearly every measure of patient experience, which could lead to financial consequences under the ...

As health systems have grown in size and complexity, CEO base salaries and bonuses have steadily increased over the past five years. Board members have attempted to align CEO incentives with those of ...

While some nursing homes have earned incentive pay for reducing their hospital readmissions, the decade-old program that pays for those bonuses has not led to any widespread improvements, a ...

Many health systems are expanding value-based care strategies and taking a more nuanced approach to the site of service for care, but Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare warned investors that the “trend ...

Payment and quality experts on Wednesday described extensive changes proposed for skilled nursing’s value-based purchasing program as “long overdue” and a way to “reset the playing field.” Since the ...

Health may be priceless, but healthcare is not. With medical costs on the rise, insurance companies and government payers are increasingly asking pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to ...

In the healthcare world, everyone wants to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. But this is much easier said than done, pointed out Dr. Patrick Runnels, chief medical officer at Cleveland-based ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's Medicaid agency will no longer give out quality-based bonus payments to the state's worst-performing nursing homes. The change comes on the heels of CBS 6's reporting that ...

With healthcare enrollment currently underway at most companies, looking into cost-effective ways to provide healthcare benefits in the future makes sense. A recent article from the Business Group on ...

Modern cardiovascular care involves human acumen, complex data and collaborative intelligence between the two. Payment models are based on well-defined tests and procedures and are baffled by the ...