The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the metrics used to the calculate the Medicare Advantage star ratings. | The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the ...

The agency suggested cutting a dozen quality measures where health plan performance is high and beneficiaries can’t easily ...

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 ...

The methods used to compare quality between one Medicare Advantage (MA) plan and another are so seriously flawed that the system needs an overhaul, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...

The CMS star ratings began as faint points of light helping patients navigate an increasingly complex galaxy of healthcare ...

While most people think glycemic management is only a concern for people living with diabetes, in the inpatient setting there’s a lot more nuance: over one third of hospitalized patients experience ...

CMS is proposing several changes to its controversial hospital star ratings program that lobby groups and health policy experts hope can help fix some major flaws. The program, long blasted by ...

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 ...

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, ...