Top Medicare and Medicaid officials want to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures aligned across all programs in a bid to ease reporting burdens and confusion. Officials with the Centers ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Dec. 30 that it will no longer require states to report measures ...

In the letter, CMS announced that the Child and Adult Core Set of Health Quality Measures for Medicaid and the Children's ...

How evolving CMS priorities are reshaping Star Ratings health plans are rethinking quality measures. What should change, 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 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) no longer will require states to report childhood and adolescent ...

CMS is considering a proposed quality measure that would require “appropriate monitoring of patients receiving [patient-controlled analgesia].” This measure seeks to address the high number of errors ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made one thing clear when it issued its newly proposed nursing home pay rule last week: Promoting nursing home quality improvement is driving policy ...

CMS on Dec. 15 published 24 quality and efficiency measures under consideration for adoption in Medicare programs. HHS employs this pre-rulemaking process to decide on measures for Medicare programs ...

Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients, according to a federal publication. On Monday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In December 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formally approved a new quality measure developed by the Quality Team at North ...