Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 04/02/2025. As a reminder, we have a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health coming out next week. Be on ...

Germany's alternative lending market presents opportunities driven by embedding credit in payment systems, boosting BNPL ...

AMA recently reiterated its call for Congress to pass several reforms that would increase physician payment and improve ...

Hospitals’ participation in voluntary Alternative Payment Models has implications for model evaluation and performance. This mixed-methods study examined factors underlying hospitals’ decision to ...

While adopting new payment models can come with challenges, there are strategies that can help oncology practices optimize their approaches, said Kathy Oubre, MS, CEO of Pontchartrain Cancer Center.

"The policy efforts in the HITECH/MACRA era, from technical requirements in EHR certification to payment incentives in APMs, did not deliver on the goal of national interoperability by 2018."—Journal ...

About 41 percent of U.S. healthcare dollars involve alternative payment models — a 23 percent increase over five years, according to a report from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network.

With the initial jolt of this administration’s first physician pay rule proposal wearing off, long-term care doctors are getting ready to enter a new era of oversight. For the first time, the federal ...

With the nation’s pediatric care infrastructure under growing strain, alternative payment models that incentivize preventive measures to keep children out of the hospital could gain steam. Durham, N.C ...

On January 1, CMS launched its latest alternative payment model: TEAM, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. The mandatory program requires hundreds of acute care hospitals to participate in ...

The treatment of many illnesses and diseases has taken a leap forward with the rise of personalized medicine, a type of therapy made to address an individual’s specific disease. These therapies, which ...