CMS assigned 199 hospitals a 1-star rating for overall quality in its May 2024 update based on 46 hospital quality measures.
The all-or-nothing nature of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality audits means nursing homes could ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed 23 mandatory quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) starting in 2028. The standards focus on statewide ...
Nursing home providers are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to proceed carefully with its anti-fraud initiative for health ...
Proposed quality measures from CMS in its Universal Foundation fall largely on primary care to collect and improve, and do not align with the high-value functions of primary care. In February of this ...
The Biden administration is proposing that acute care hospitals get a 3.2% increase in payments for federal fiscal 2023 and to install new quality measures focused on health equity. The Centers for ...