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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quality-measurement movement began more than 20 years ago and has resulted in transparent quality-performance information, accountability, and improvements. At the same time, proliferation of ...

A new study that examined six ways of measuring staff variability in US nursing homes highlights specific tools regulators could use to refine how they rate staffing for consumers. The findings showed ...

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...

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, ...