CMS quality measures might not indicate the actual care patients receive, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The GAO studied how the agency decides what quality measures to ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued guidance on state-directed payment quality evaluations, ...

Skilled nursing facilities have an additional tool to measure their own quality improvement efforts under a new change to the quality measures rating domain. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Medicare has strict processes and procedures in place to ensure its beneficiaries receive safe, efficient, fair, and effective care. Learn more.

Carrots and sticks have been the name of Medicare’s quality improvement game for years. But policy experts say the strategy ...

CMS has issued a request for information regarding the alignment among reporting programs of clinical quality measures reported by eligible professionals. CMS is seeking information on how EPs might ...

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 ...

While most people think glycemic management is only a concern for people living with diabetes, in the inpatient setting there’s a lot more nuance: over one third of hospitalized patients experience ...

This year, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has signaled a strong commitment to improving an often-overlooked area of inpatient care – glycemic management. For health system executives ...

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 ...

Quality improvement organizations involved in CMS' Quality Innovation Network claim recent funding cuts are forcing them to significantly reduce staff and prevent them from fulfilling new obligations ...

Medicare initially focused on cost monitoring measures when thinking about quality assurance. However, it now aims to ensure beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, impartial, and effective ...