CMS Sets Timeline for Medicare's Shift to Value-Based Reimbursement

CMS's ambitious goal released last month of tying 30 percent of traditional, or fee-for-service, Medicare payments to quality or value through alternative payment models, such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) or bundled payment arrangements by the end of 2016, and tying 50 percent of payments to these models by the end of 2018, will require the attention of healthcare organizations this year.

Given CMS' ambitious timeline for rewarding value-based care, healthcare organizations can no longer afford to ignore the industry's inevitable shift to value-based reimbursement.

HIN.com has a range of resources to get you up to speed on the most successful strategies for value-based reimbursement, including:

• Positioning for Value-Based Reimbursement: Workforce Development for Transitional Care, Chronic Care Management
  
  
• Physician Value-Based Reimbursement: Quality Rewards for Population Health
  
  
• Value-Based Reimbursement Answer Book: 97 FAQs on Healthcare Models, Measures and Methodology
  
  
• Care Compacts in the Medical Neighborhood: Transforming PCP-Specialist Care Coordination
  
  
• Driving Value-Based Reimbursement with Integrated Care Models
  
  
• 7 Patient-Centered Strategies to Generate Value-Based Reimbursement
  
  
• Guide to Value-Based Reimbursement: Profiting from Payment Bundling, PHO Shared Savings, and Pay for Performance
  
  
• Case Management in Value-Based Healthcare: Trends, Team-Building and Technology