CMS has launched a new website designed to explain value-based care to the public and providers. The website “explains in plain language what we mean by value-based care, how it supports patients, and ...

Access to high-quality primary care contributes to better health outcomes and equity for people and communities. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it will seek to improve ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project. The agency announced ...

Earlier this month CMS announced a new primary care initiative that seeks to help practices transition to primary care. Called the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model, the initiative focuses on five ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will test a primary care model that aims to improve access and quality by promoting value-based care, with an emphasis on providers that lack experience ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is terminating the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model at the end of 2025 due to what it called the model's "substantial and ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program — which includes $50 billion in funding — is being positioned as a possible solution ...

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 ...

Medicare’s value-based programs are penalizing inpatient hospitals for community-level health equity factors that impact outcomes but are largely out of hospitals’ control, according to a recent ...

In this two-part article, we explore opportunities to scale equitable access and longitudinal care experiences with home-based care in Medicare Advantage (MA). In Part 1, we assessed recent regulatory ...