Alternative Risk-Based Payment Models: An Overview

Throughout our series of blogs, we at MedSpan Research have been exploring trends in the healthcare industry (such as care pathways and high-deductible health plans). In this blog, we will explore another major change in healthcare: risk-based alternative payment models.

Home Healthcare + Star Ratings = Controversy

Like nursing homes, physician groups,dialysis centers and Medicare Advantage plans before them, CMS is now rating the quality of care delivered by home healthcare agencies (HHAs). While the program is controversial, it provides clear guidance to healthcare manufactures as to the sales and marketing messages and data that will resonate with their home healthcare customers.