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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Immunization quality measures shouldn't be used in payment arrangements, agency notes ...

CMS will provide up to $30 million of funding and technical assistance to clinicians, patients and other stakeholders to support the development of quality measures over three years, Kate Goodrich, MD ...

1. CMS worked with the American Gastroenterological Association, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Medical Association and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement to ...