Payment & Delivery Models
Health and Human Services advisory panel endorses oncology alternative payment model that uses EHR-embedded therapeutic and diagnostic pathways.
Medicare
Medicare’s payment incentive program can be confusing, and what you learned in 2017 may not be transferable in 2018. The AMA’s president clears the air.
The devil is in the details on how a proposed agreement assigns patients, evaluates physician performance and calculates payment.
Medicare is open to new ways of delivering care that improve patient outcomes while lowering payers’ costs. Take this advice on how to participate.
Most physicians say their practice earned money in an alternative payment model. However, AMA survey finds 71% of practice revenue came from fee for service.
The AMA seeks greater flexibility from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help make the agency's new pay models more attractive.
If a patient visiting a retail clinic does not have a primary care physician or usual source of care, the clinic should help them find one, says new policy.
Here is a way to integrate behavioral health care into ambulatory care practice.
Physician Health
Delving into the opioid epidemic, burnout, work-life balance and cancer-care improvement grabbed physician readers.
The five-year primary care medical home model, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) could help a physician’s practice during the MACRA transition. One way to qualify for the Advanced APM track is to apply for CPC+.
