The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) no longer will require states to report childhood and adolescent immunization statuses as it explores “alternative immunization measures.” In a Dec ...

In July, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an ambitious plan to create a framework aimed at simplifying the exchange of healthcare data between patients and providers.

Medicaid and CHIP cover almost half of American children. A new CMS policy means we will know less about their health.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report April 5 outlining recommendations to improve CMS’ oversight of Medicare beneficiary data security. For the report, the GAO analyzed ...

CMS has finalized rules permitting designated organizations to share or sell claims data and analyses to providers, employers and other parties to use the information to improve care. The rule affects ...

Enabling Proactive Intervention: By streamlining workflows and improving data visibility, real-time care coordination ...

iv) payers support outcomes and value-based models through appropriate data exchange. The announcement calls on the healthcare industry to voluntarily align around a shared framework for data and ...

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 ...

CMS has been trying to scale value-based care for decades with mixed results — but the agency’s newly announced ACCESS model could represent a more meaningful step toward aligning payment with ...

CMS said Friday it plans to remove reporting about unsubstantiated complaints from Nursing Home Care Compare next month.

Hospital programs providing at-home acute care are widely appreciated by patients and clinicians but still don’t have a bulletproof argument in respect to quality and costs as compared to a ...