title: Setting value-based payment goals--HHS efforts to improve U.S. health care.
abstract: New targets have been set for value-based payment: 85% of Medicare fee-for-service payments should be tied to quality or value by 2016, and 30% of Medicare payments should be tied to quality or value through alternative payment models by 2016 (50% by 2018).
authors.affiliation: Ms. Burwell is the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
authors.forename: Sylvia M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Burwell
mesh_terms: D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans / Q000191:economics; D018166:Health Care Reform; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services