The University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, or LDI, recently announced two new grant awards.

As employers push patients to lower-cost sites of care and regulators nudge providers toward downside risk, value-based care ...

The shift toward value-based care may be inevitable, but without equitable rules, it risks creating new inefficiencies, Nikhil Shetty, MD, said. Dr. Shetty, COO of Midwest Interventional Spine ...

Health care is changing — and for our community, that’s good news. The 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) shows the Triad’s biggest health challenges are preventable when care is proactive, ...

Nursing home leadership should intensify efforts to include their medical directors in regular team meetings, analyses of care issues and agenda-setting, according to a physician expert, who added ...

Saber Healthcare Group’s joint venture (JV) with Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) was driven by strategic choice rather than financial need, ...

Institutional Special Needs Plans could be the tool nursing homes need to find better clinical and financial success and help the government achieve its goals of reducing costs and improving quality, ...

One area in which we can see the value-based equation in action is the focus on appropriate sites of care. An example of this is the move of select elective surgical cases from higher-cost inpatient ...

One proud graduate came from Oregon. Another from Lancaster, Pa. They were two of nine who gathered one day in the fall of 2012 to celebrate completing the first online master’s degree program offered ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced two initiatives set to launch in July 2024 that could help move the needle away from fee-for-service payments. One focuses on supporting ...

Attend any healthcare conference and you’ll quickly discover that it’s become downright fashionable for healthcare leaders to talk about their unwavering commitment to “value-based care.” The ...