CMS launched an Application Program Interface that makes it easier to share electronic data for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program. In October, CMS revealed the program’s website. The new API, called the ...

Using data from 632 primary care practices, the authors show that the CMS Practice Assessment Tool has adequate predictive validity for participation in alternative payment models. Objectives: To ...

A new online tool from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continues its push to facilitate data sharing in the Medicare Quality Payment Program. The application program interface (API) will ...

Individual nursing homes’ COVID-19 vaccination rates are more subject to public comparisons thanks to a tool that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled this afternoon. The goal is to ...

CMS unveiled a tool Sept. 21 that allows users to track COVID-19 vaccination rates among nursing home staff and residents. The tool, available on Medicare.gov, allows users to compare vaccination ...

Though the tool is live on the site, CMS is still accepting feedback so that it can work out glitches and help make the resource more useful to patients and families. Q: CMS recently updated its Care ...

Procedure Price Lookup provides Medicare patients with price differences for some surgical procedures in hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center care venues. The Centers for Medicare & ...

The CMS is looking to give providers a look behind the curtain on how performance measures are developed. The agency is creating an online resource known as the CMS Measures Inventory Tool, or CMIT, ...

In an August 30, 2019 press release, CMS announced the launch of a new tool, which CMS has titled the “Market Saturation and Utilization Data Tool.” The tool is available here through the CMS website.

Several plans under California’s new cost-saving Medicaid initiative have started using a new tool that’s pushing to create new pathways to transition residents away from skilled nursing facilities ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formally launched its innovations website, where it plans to gather and test new ideas to improve the healthcare system for its Medicare, Medicaid ...