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Modernizing home health care to improve outcomes and efficiency

Baptist Health partners with a home care leader to expand access and enhance coordination, outcomes and value in home-based care delivery.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight
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What is value-based care?

Value-based care is a health care model focused on enhancing patient outcomes and quality of care. Find AMA resources on value-based care.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Health Care Definitions
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Shift to value-based care will stumble without help from Congress

Lawmakers must reestablish financial incentives that helped spread APMs to a majority of traditional Medicare patients. 

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Payment & Delivery Models
Fighting for Physicians
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2 Min Read

July 25, 2025: Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update

Proposed 2026 Medicare physician payment rule would redistribute pay across specialties and practice types and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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Joy in Medicine®: Criteria

The Joy in Medicine® program centers on criteria across six pillars that contribute to well-being. Learn more about the program criteria. 

Physician Health
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Here is how value-based care can work for private practices

With data and commitment, value-based care payment models can help sustain larger physician-led organizations and smaller private practices.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Physicians will see Medicare payments rise in 2026

Provisions in MACRA and reconciliation package mean a rise after five years of cuts, but bigger fixes are needed to protect access to Medicare. 

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Medicare & Medicaid
Fighting for Physicians
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CMS has questions on digital health tools. AMA has answers.

The AMA offers guidance to CMS on information blocking, patients’ access to records, fixing prior authorization and making digital health tools useful.

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Digital
Fighting for Physicians
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Aligning payment and care in value-based practice models

Physician leaders from Henry Ford Health and The Permanente Medical Group share key strategies for advancing value-based care payment models.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Health System Spotlight