Between 2008 and 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invested more than $1.3 billion to develop and maintain quality measures to be used to promote healthcare quality and quality ...

Federal definitions of nursing home falls and related injuries, and how they must be reported, are changing starting Wednesday. The changes threaten to compromise providers’ compliance and ...

The following article was written by Ann O’Neill, RN, MBA/HCM, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health.By now, almost everyone in the ASC industry is aware of the new CMS quality ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Half of quality measures from CMS’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS, that are relevant to ...

Health systems strapped for resources worry that reporting on new quality measures and transitioning to interoperability as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' final rule will be ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is providing up to $30 million in grant funding to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality ...

A media report early this month that stated CMS plans to remove eight hospital-acquired condition measures from its Hospital Compare database is incorrect, according to a HealthLeaders Media report.

Medicare’s approach to quality assurance has significantly changed over the years. Starting with cost monitoring measures, it now ensures Medicare beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, and ...

CMS released its first home- and community-based services quality measure set July 21 to promote consistent quality measurement within and across such programs. The measure set is intended to provide ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in tandem with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, issued a request for information this week – wanting to hear from providers and ...

Every day, physicians encounter patients in their practices who show the toll of skipping meals to feed their children, or who cannot refrigerate their insulin because they have no electricity. They ...