On October 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), a mandatory alternative ...

A new model for Medicare Advantage value-based insurance design will begin January 1, 2017 and run for five years, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In the first year, CMS ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule that promotes the adoption of insurance plan benefit design for insurers to offer lower premiums. The final Notice of Benefit and ...

The CMS' long-standing hospital readmissions penalty program has taken quite a beating recently from members of the research community over problems with its underlying measures. But while criticism ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered a glimpse at behind-the-scenes work they are doing together to reduce the burden EHRs ...

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 ...

The HEBA was introduced by the Innovation Center as a key feature in its efforts to support health equity through payment adjustments across models. The HEBA creates a score based upon a beneficiary’s ...