Value-based health care: compliance infrastructure
Measures of success: How value-based pricing may change the pharmaceutical industry
Health care M&A
On March 12, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced that it intends to end early four payment models to achieve $750 million in savings: the...more
The Trump administration will have its own vision on value-based care, creating specific priorities for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the federal government’s primary testing ground for payment and...more
Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare delivery model that prioritizes patient outcomes over the volume of services provided. This approach aims to enhance the quality of care while controlling costs by incentivizing...more
On July 1, 2024 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) will be inaugurating a new value-based payment model designed specifically to address the devastating impacts that a diagnosis of dementia or...more
Behavioral Health M&A Will Remain Hot in 2022 - Behavioral health had its most active year in 2021, which came on the heels of very active years that preceded it. There are many factors that contributed to this and that...more
In this week’s episode, Limo Cherian, Carla Dewberry and Steven Pine discuss recent changes to value-based health care payment arrangements triggered by the current COVID-19 emergency. In particular, the presenters discuss...more
The most recent MA Call Letter, “Announcement of Calendar Year (CY) 2018 Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates and Medicare Advantage and Part D Payment Policies and Final Call Letter and Request for Information” (Call Letter)...more
Since I began writing this year-end review in 2013, there have been some common themes – a shift to pay for quality and away from fee-for service, much of which has been brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA): efforts...more
On June 30, 2016, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch released a white paper examining potential reforms to the Federal Stark law. The white paper, entitled “Why Stark, Why Now? Suggestions to Improve the Stark...more
Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently announced that, beginning January 1, 2017, Medicare Advantage plans in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee will be permitted...more