Oplinc|Best Practice Review – Volume 10, Issues 1

THE VALUE BASED PAYMENT MODEL
Well before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put into place the groundwork for moving the physician payment model from a fee-for-service (FFS) payment methodology to a new value-based payment (VBP) model that would incorporate payment for quality. We will begin this issue with a brief review of the legislature that mandated the quality programs implemented by CMS.



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