The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inefficient patchwork that is US health care payment policy. The impact of these policies on skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing facilities, ...

The US health care system is transforming how it pays for and delivers care. New payment models and benefit designs aim to promote and sustain improvements in health and care delivery, specifically ...

Safety-net providers can benefit from demonstrations of condition-specific and defined-scope-of-practice alternative payment models that account for the nonfinancial as well as financial risks that ...

The Biden administration wants primary care and specialty providers to work closer together, including via new population-based payment models to bolster referrals to specialists. The Center for ...

Americans spend far more on health care than anywhere else in the world but we have the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries. A lot of that can be explained by the unique aspects of ...

The Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model provides the next great opportunity in moving a health care payment system toward paying for value ...

Health care payments have long suffered from cumbersome paper processing. Fiserv is making the latest attempt to fix this problem through updates to its Clover point of sale system. Processing Content ...

The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, but one, in particular, is inescapable: compensation. Substantial disparities between what primary care ...

Rusty had paid for a long-term care policy for many years. Then, one day, his daughter found a cancelation notice for nonpayment of premiums sitting on his desk. “Dad, why are you not paying the ...