The revolutionary changes in healthcare are making "fee-for-service" reimbursement, which rewards volume and capacity, irrelevant in a world that increasingly values and rewards clinical and business outcomes. 

Healthcare is increasingly being seen as a service based on quality and is becoming more:

The healthcare field has seen the move toward the elimination of clinical and managerial non-value-added variation. This has resulted from the creation of collaborative standardized protocols, pathways, procedures and methodologies.

Healthcare organizations are taking a more entrepreneurial approach, and redesigning clinical and business practices to be able to duplicate or exceed clinical and business outcomes at a far lower cost structure.

Healthcare delivery systems and their infrastructure are rapidly becoming virtual, with clinical and business analytics used to support evidence-based clinical and management practices.

Healthcare, like every other industry, is becoming rapidly globalized, and people from every corner of the globe are increasingly comfortable traveling anywhere in the world to find world-class, low-cost healthcare services.

The President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget advances the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mission to promote the health and well-being of all Americans. HHS proposes $130.7 billion in discretionary and $1.7 trillion in mandatory proposed budget authority for FY 2025.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has issued a landmark Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence, declaring firearm violence in  America to be a public health crisis. Read the full advisory document: Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America.

The Public Health Data Strategy (PHDS) provides a way for public health partners, healthcare organizations and the public to understand what is being done, and the progress being made:
•To address gaps in public health data.
•To reduce the complexity of data exchange.
•To help the nation promote health equity.

•To provide timely and actionable data.
•To improve health outcomes for all.

https://qpp.cms.gov/participation-lookup

Check your eligibility by entering your 10-digit National Provider Identifier (NPI) number to view your QPP participation status by performance year (PY). 

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/qualitymeasures/index.html

Quality measures are tools that help us  measure or quantify healthcare processes, outcomes, patient perceptions,  and organizational structure and/or systems that are associated with  the ability to provide high-quality health care and/or that relate to  one or more quality goals for health care. These goals include:  effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely  care

CDC National Center for Health Statistics: Provides health statistics for various populations. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

Health Resources and Services Administration Data Warehouse: Provides maps, data, reports, and dashboard to the public. The data integrates with external sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau. https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/

UDS Mapper: The UDS Mapper is a mapping and decision-support tool driven primarily from data within the Uniform Data System. https://www.udsmapper.org/

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/index.html

The higher a hospital's performance compared  with other hospitals or improvement from its own past performance with  respect to a fiscal year, the higher the hospital's value-based  incentive payment for the fiscal year would be.  

https://www.qualityforum.org/Home.aspx

https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/

https://www.cdc.gov/

http://dph1.adph.state.al.us/FacilitiesDirectory/

https://www.alaha.org

Alabama Primary Care Association

https://www.alphca.com/

Alabama Commission on Higher Education

http://ache.edu/

National Rural Health Association

https://www.ruralhealthweb.org/

https://www.hhs.gov/

National Institutes of Health

https://www.nih.gov/

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

https://www.cms.gov/

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

http://medpac.gov/

Administration for Community Living

https://acl.gov/

National Council on Disability

https://ncd.gov/

U.S. Social Security Administration

https://www.ssa.gov/

Health Resources & Services Administration

https://www.hrsa.gov/get-health-care/resources/index.html