The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an information collection request (ICR) addressing the collection of data elements CMS must use to determine its offer amount when ...

The Biden administration is pushing to resolve big gaps in the quality and accuracy of data on health equity as it installs new requirements for payers and providers. The Centers for Medicare & ...

Federal officials are considering significantly expanding how much information nursing homes must record in the Minimum Data Set, potentially adding reporting for patients outside of Medicare to ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its strategy to improve health equity across the agency, detailing actions on how providers can identify and close gaps in care. CMS’ ...

Legislators who authored the Physician Payments Sunshine Act — Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) — are again putting pressure on CMS, insisting in an open letter the ...

Presenters from CMS and the CDC explored the importance of standardizing health equity data collection at the 2024 CMS Health Equity Conference. Meagan Khau, MHA, director of the Data Analytics & ...

Five hours and eight minutes. That’s the amount of a hospital infection preventionist’s time that’s eaten up by meeting CMS reporting requirements, according to new research. Feeling burdened by the ...

A warning letter sent late last week by federal regulators about nursing home debt collection practices was overblown and obscured another significant problem, operations experts said over the weekend ...

On April 18, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Information Collection Request (ICR) addressing the “Drug Price Negotiation Process” for the Medicare Drug Price ...