Rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are a new Medicare provider type that will allow Medicare to pay for emergency department and other outpatient hospital services in rural areas beginning on January 1, ...
CMS’ new safety measures are a welcome addition for Peter Silver, MD, senior vice president, chief quality officer and associate chief medical officer of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health.
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 ...
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 ...
Amino, a San Francisco-based startup that uses claims data to help consumers choose a doctor, announced today that it now has access to Medicare claims data and has been certified by the Centers for ...
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 ...
Feds broaden nursing home quality campaign with new discharge, satisfaction and vaccination measures
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 ...
Quality data is critical to informing public health actions. | The time has come for CMS to implement performance measures—or quantitative metrics—for public health and clinical data exchange, writes ...
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 ...
Through its proposed Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is building on administration-level priorities to better assess disparities in ...
1. CMS worked with the American Gastroenterological Association, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Medical Association and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement to ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking states to use Medicaid payments to incentivize better outcomes for nursing home residents and improve staffing. CMS issued a bulletin on Monday ...
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