Setting value-based payment goals--HHS efforts to improve U.S. health care

N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 5;372(10):897-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1500445. Epub 2015 Jan 26.

Abstract

New targets have been set for value-based payment: 85% of Medicare fee-for-service payments should be tied to quality or value by 2016, and 30% of Medicare payments should be tied to quality or value through alternative payment models by 2016 (50% by 2018).

MeSH terms

  • Fee-for-Service Plans / economics
  • Health Care Reform
  • Insurance, Health / economics
  • Medicare / economics*
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Quality Improvement / economics*
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms*
  • United States
  • United States Dept. of Health and Human Services