Background: Under the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services has greatly expanded inpatient fee-for-value programs including the Hospital …

Background: Improving the quality of hospital care is an important policy objective. Hospitals
operate under pressure to contain costs and might face challenges related to financial …

We evaluated the effect US hospital performance as measured by the Medicare hospital
value-based purchasing (HVBP) program has on the volume of hospitals inpatient and …

Financial issues are top concerns for hospital executives. Evolving reimbursement structures
focused on value provide an incentive to fully understand how patient safety performance …

Objectives: To re-evaluate previously identified determinants of hospital profitability in the
post-Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act years. Data: Data were obtained from the …

With the passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act in 2010, Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) …

Patients enter healthcare systems and hospitals to maintain their health, prevent disease,
and receive care and treatment from injuries or illness, but no one expects to become more …

Background: Improving the quality of hospital care is an important policy objective. Hospitals
operate under pressure to contain costs and might face challenges related to financial …

Abstract Medicare paid $388.7 billion to acute care hospitals in 2014 representing the
largest portion of the health care sector in the United States. Medicare implemented an …

National healthcare expenditures have grown from $146 per person in 1960 to $11,172 per
person in 2018. During the same time period, the percentage of the gross domestic product …