Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 04/02/2025. As a reminder, we have a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health coming out next week. Be on ...

On Jan. 1, CMS launched the latest value-based care model known as the Transforming Episode Accountability Model, or the TEAM ...

Accountable alternative payment models remained steady in 2024, according to a Feb. 2 survey by America’s Health Insurance Plans. In 2024, 44.9% of healthcare payments stemmed from alternative payment ...

Alternative payment models have potential to address the medical and social factors contributing to the country’s health inequity, according to the health equity advisory team for HHS’ Health Care ...

With the initial jolt of this administration’s first physician pay rule proposal wearing off, long-term care doctors are getting ready to enter a new era of oversight. For the first time, the federal ...

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

Harpreet Cheema, system senior vice president of Payer Strategy and Analytics of CommonSpirit Health and representatives from Innovaccer will give the best practices for establishing a clinically ...

On January 1, CMS launched its latest alternative payment model: TEAM, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. The mandatory program requires hundreds of acute care hospitals to participate in ...

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 ...

From improving outcomes for vulnerable, post-acute patients to building collaborative networks using real-time data for measurable impact, it can take several different approaches to deliver quality ...