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Medicare Basics series: Advancing value-based care with alternative payment models

Alternative payment models (APMs) are a key approach to achieving value-based care by providing incentive payments to deliver high-quality and cost-efficient care.

Medicare & Medicaid
AMA Update for June 23, 2025: Expanding home health care services and the benefits of home health
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Expanding home health care services and the benefits of home health

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the benefits of home health care.

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AMA Update
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Expanding home health care services and the benefits of home health [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the benefits of home health care.

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Digital
AMA Update Podcast
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Ongoing learning helps physicians thrive—and stay—in value-based care

CenterWell and Conviva Senior Primary Care invest in education and leadership to boost satisfaction, reduce burnout and support long-term retention.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Health System Spotlight
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Health care costs & value: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health care costs and promote value in health care spending.

Medical Service
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Health insurance: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health insurer actions that interfere with the patient/physician relationship and impact the practice of medicine. Such topics include prior authorization, covered benefits, and affordability of health insurance.

Medical Service
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Physician payment reform: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that contribute to the policy options for reforming physician payment. Key council reports on this topic have addressed APMs, Medicaid expansion, the site-of-service differential and high-value care.

Medical Service
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7 Min Read

Ready for health AI? It may depend on your practice setting

An eight-percentage point gap exists in the use of AI between employed and private practice physicians. But the ways they use it are pretty similar.

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Digital
Fighting for Physicians
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7 Min Read

Outcomes over volume: How prevention powers value-based care

Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group delivers care that helps patients live six to eight years longer and reduces death from sepsis, stroke and cancer.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Health System Spotlight