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 ...

Medicare’s approach to quality assurance has significantly changed over the years. Starting with cost monitoring measures, it now ensures Medicare beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, and ...

Medicare Advantage plans’ varied interpretations of skilled nursing rules that apply to all beneficiaries in traditional Medicare could complicate federal regulators’ efforts to collect more quality ...

Eighty-two physician organizations, including the American Medical Association, are urging CMS to allow physicians to review Medicare quality data for accuracy and to appeal errors before it’s made ...

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 is proposing to modify several hospital quality measures and remove four others, including those focused on health equity and social drivers of health. The agency outlined the changes April 11 as ...

Groundbreaking research more than a decade ago showed that almost one-fifth of people enrolled in Medicare were being readmitted within 30 days after being discharged from the hospital, harming ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regularly assesses the quality of opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment received by Medicaid beneficiaries. However, to date, there has been no ...

The Biden administration is encountering a perennial problem in its push to better embed health equity in payment models run by the CMS: a lack of reliable data. Variable race and ethnicity data in ...

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. — CalvertHealth Medical Center has achieved a CalvertHealth 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the latest hospital quality assessments, marking ...

Medicare initially focused on cost monitoring measures when thinking about quality assurance. However, it now aims to ensure beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, impartial, and effective ...