Moving From Volume-based to Value-based Rehabilitation Care.

The author discusses the interest of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in value-based purchasing to achieve the triple aims of better health, better health care, and lower costs. Topics mentioned include the overall goal of the CMS G-coding, the ICD-9 or ICD-10 diagnostic code on the beneficiary claim form, and reasons why experts in the U.S. have had difficulty arriving at a credible system of outcome performance assessment.