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The latest news in Healthcare IT â straight to your inbox. The Magazine. HHS plans big Medicare reimbursement changes. In what it's calling a 'historic' announcement, the Department of Health and Human Services has set new goals to speed the U.S. healthcare system toward value-based care. [See also: Value-based payment models expected to reach tipping point by 2018, study finds]
HHS has also set a goal of tying 85 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to quality or value by 2016 â and 90 percent by 2018 â with help from initiatives such as the Hospital Value Based Purchasing and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction programs.