The research will focus on payment for episodes with up to two PAC services within seven days of each other and exclude hospital and physician services. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers.

FirstHealth Home Care, a division of FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a comprehensive not-for-profit healthcare system in the mid-Carolinas, has always kept the focus on high quality patient care and actionable data to drive performance improvement. With the advent of the five year Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model Pilot in 2016, FirstHealth was already demonstrating consistently high outcomes. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers.

The race to value-based care is heating-up. In today?s healthcare landscape, value-based care is a hodge-podge of models. However, as we track changes to the healthcare infrastructure and payment reform, we see the escalation from fee-for-service models to value-based models supported by an increase in greater risk-sharing models. This article is free to 1-Year Classic and 2-Year Premium subscribers.