By Melanie Evans and Maureen McKinney | January 05, 2013
| Print Magazine
A Modern Healthcare analysis of Medicare's first stabs at rewarding hospitals that do well on process-of-care measures and a patient-satisfaction survey while penalizing hospitals with high readmission rates shows only a minor correlation between the two. FULL STORY »
By Merrill Goozner | January 05, 2013
| Print Magazine
An analysis by Modern Healthcare would seem to bear out the contention that something is amiss with value-based purchasing, at least as it is currently structured. FULL STORY »
Hospitals won't see much change to their Medicare payments from bonuses and penalties tied to quality and patient satisfaction that will be awarded for the first time in the new year. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | December 20, 2012
| Basic Web
Medicare will reward 1,557 hospitals with more money and reduce payments to 1,427 others starting Jan. 1 under its value-based purchasing program, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of CMS records. FULL STORY »
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