New data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows more evidence that accountable care organizations have reduced direct Medicare spending in 2016. Participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the agency’s largest ACO program, saved a total of $652 million, according to...
Last year, Modern Healthcare launched the Transformation Hub, shortly after crafting a mission statement that re-established our commitment to providing industry leaders with news, events and data that advance higher-quality, lower-cost and patient-centered care. This section of our website was developed in partnership with Avia,...
The Cleveland Clinic is a big name to add to the HCTTF’s influence as it’s already a champion of VBC. The large nonprofit health system has a focus on teaching and research. It also has a business unit dedicated to population health, which is another...
Dozens of health care organizations – including professional groups, insurers, pharmaceutical giants and hospital chains – are urging the White House and members of Congress to preserve key reforms as debate over Obamacare and the overall future of the nation's health care system rages on.The...
A group that includes six of the nation's top 15 health systems and four of the top 25 payers urged the Trump-Pence administration to make a commitment to value-based healthcare payment reform.The 43-member Health Care Transformation Task Force wrote a letter to the incoming administration...
Before the Trump administration takes office and the promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act begins, dozens of health care groups this week wrote to leaders of the next Congress and administration and urged them to keep moving away from fee-for-service health care and towards...