Alternative payment models Here are thumbnail definitions of alternative payment models: Accountable Core Organization (ACOs) are groups of healthcare providers and hospitals that jointly provide ...

CMS created a new voluntary inpatient and outpatient bundled payment model, Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced. 1. Participants in the advanced alternative payment model can earn ...

It’s a hell of a starting point: The work of providing primary care is already overwhelming. But trying to get paid for that work in the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment system has become ...

Specialty physicians, including gastroenterologists, are struggling to participate as the healthcare arena adapts to Alternative Payment Models. At a recent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...

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 ...

"We found that changing the payment system probably isn't enough to ensure that patient care will improve," said Dr. Mark W. Friedberg, the study's lead author and a senior natural scientist at RAND, ...

The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association have developed an alternative payment model for the treatment of opioid use disorder. Here are six things to know about ...