How surgeons are paid may meaningfully influence how often patients receive low-value outpatient surgery, with fee-for-service environments linked to higher rates of potentially unnecessary procedures ...

Year after year, surveys show the same thing: Healthcare providers’ evolution toward accepting risk to keep patients healthy—widely viewed as the holy grail of lowering healthcare costs—has been ...

Advisors who used a fee-for-service model charged more for their services in 2023 than the prior year, according to a recent AdvicePay study. The 2024 AdvicePay Fee-for-Service Industry Trend Report ...

More than 1.3 billion adults globally will have diabetes by 2050, according to a study released this year. In the U.S., our current health system — which is structured around treatment, not prevention ...

With HHS’ new goals to overhaul healthcare reimbursement to shift away from the fee-for-service-based system over the next few years, it seems to be a foregone conclusion that the epoch of FFS ...

CMS is applying pressure on health systems to transition from fee-for-service to value-based care by 2030. While value-based care has been discussed for years, many institutions are not yet fully ...

Medicare primarily operates a fee-for-service (FFS) payment system. This means that healthcare professionals and facilities bill Medicare for each service they provide, with itemized costs appearing ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront major series, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The series features analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

Physician practice fee-for-service models may help improve patient access to care by reducing specialist wait times, according to a study published March 4 in the American Journal of Accountable Care.

An analysis published in Health Affairs outlines the benefits of structuring negotiations and standardizing fee-for-service payments independent of any specific reform proposals to control health care ...

A year ago, Joe Siano was at home in Oklahoma when his elderly parents in Mission Viejo, and a brother who often looked in on them, were all hospitalized with COVID-19. All three would end up on ...

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