John M. O'Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. When the job market turns into more of an employee's market, shortcuts ...

While value-based purchasing (VBP) programs have proliferated in the past two decades, quality measures have become increasingly important as they are employed to calculate the “value” of care. The ...

We all want value when shopping for a car, a home or a college for our kids. So, it seems only natural that value-based health care — where health care providers get rewarded with bonus payments for ...

Health care is a deeply partisan issue, as the presidential campaign makes clear every day. Yet beneath the bitter debates and far from the daily headlines, Republicans and Democrats have quietly come ...

Value-based care champions health and justice by focusing on outcomes rather than on units of service. As this type of payment reform expands, implementing the necessary changes to enable it must ...

“My advice is simple—ditch the PowerPoint presentations and start asking better questions. Ask your clients,‘What’s your biggest source of revenue and what are your biggest risks to that revenue?’ ...

During her opening plenary at the National Association of ACOs Spring 2021 Conference, Liz Fowler, PhD, JD, deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, ...

Before the pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. were making notable progress in the effort to address flagging patient safety and care quality metrics. And that effort paid off — adverse events and safety ...