HHS Reports To Congress On Value-Based Purchasing Of Hospital Services By Medicare

The Secretary of Health and Human Services has delivered to Congress a Report on the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (VBP), suggesting ways to continue transforming Medicare into a prudent purchaser of higher quality health care for Medicare beneficiaries.”For Medicare beneficiaries to get higher quality health care, our payment system needs to encourage better care,” said HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on December 2nd, 2007