As 2026 draws closer, so too does the start of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS)  mandatory bundled ...

As more than 700 hospitals prepare to implement CMS’ Transforming Episode Accountability Model on Jan. 1, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is not starting from scratch. Through TEAM, CMS ...

On August 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule updating the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for acute care hospitals and the Medicare ...

On October 31, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule for the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician ...

This article presents a descriptive review of a team-based care transformation model in a large primary care network, including core staffing, process improvement, and extended care teams. Allegheny ...

The new Collaborative Care Model is rooted in positioning team members to practice at top of their licensure. Editor’s note: This article appears in the July-September 2023 edition of HealthLeaders ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / When a medical emergency happens in rural America, distance, staffing shortages, and fragmented communication can stand between a patient and ...

ACCESS is a decade-long initiative to expand tech-enabled care and outcome-based payments for Medicare patients with obesity, ...

DALLAS – Using a physician anesthesiologist-led Anesthesia Care Team model increases patient access to care, compared to nurse-administered sedation for gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy procedures, ...

The staff clinician group with access to the Enhanced Primary Care Diabetes model was found to improve their diabetes care quality. The Enhanced Primary Care Diabetes (EPCD) team model was able to ...

In a webinar on Feb. 28, 2012, Robert Farrar, MD, JD, FCLM, vice president of medical affairs for Somnia Anesthesia; Brent Sommer, a CRNA at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif.; and ...