by MedBen Analytics | Dec 2, 2019 | Bundled Payments, CMS, Mandatory Participation, MedBen Analytics, Radiation Oncology, Value-Based Care
MedTech Dive reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has placed the proposed regulation for a mandatory radiation oncology alternative payment model (RO-APM) on its long-term agenda. Originally scheduled for an implementation date as early...
by MedBen Analytics | Nov 18, 2019 | Bundled Payments, MedBen Analytics, Performance, Reports, Research, Value-Based Care, Wasteful Spending
A recent study found that waste accounts for about 25% of U.S. health care spending, with wasteful spending costing Americans between $760 billion to $935 billion annually. Researchers determined that the highest amount of wasteful spending was linked to...
by MedBen Analytics | Nov 4, 2019 | Alternative Payment Models, Bundled Payments, Commerical Bundled Payments, MedBen, MedBen Analytics, Reports, Value-Based Care
A recent report indicates that the health care industry is making a slow but steady transition from fee-for-service to bundled payments and other alternative payment models (APMs) where reimbursement is based on quality rather than quantity. According to the Health...
by MedBen Analytics | Oct 21, 2019 | Bundled Payments, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), CJR, Lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR), Mandatory Participation, MedBen Analytics, Post-Acute Care, Value-Based Care
In a recent evaluation of Performance Years 1 and 2 for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) surveyed participant hospitals on the strategies they employed to improve care coordination...
by MedBen Analytics | Oct 7, 2019 | Alternative Payment Models, Bundled Payments, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), MedBen Analytics, Medicare, Value-Based Care
Inside Health Policy recently reported that Sanjay Doddamani, a senior adviser at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, stated that the center aims to move all beneficiaries in fee-for-service Medicare into alternative payment models by 2025. And while the...
by MedBen Analytics | Sep 23, 2019 | Announcements, Bundled Payments, Commerical Bundled Payments, MedBen, MedBen Analytics, Value-Based Care
In addition to providing bundled payment insights to health care systems, MedBen offers a wide variety of benefit solutions… and on the newly revamped MedBen.com website, you can see for yourself why we’re “the benefits partner that employers...
