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 ...
The agency suggested cutting a dozen quality measures where health plan performance is high and beneficiaries can’t easily ...
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 ...
The CMS star ratings began as faint points of light helping patients navigate an increasingly complex galaxy of healthcare ...
On November 25, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that puts forth policy and technical changes to ...
Health systems strapped for resources worry that reporting on new quality measures and transitioning to interoperability as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' final rule will be ...
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 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced changes to the Medicare Advantage (MA) Star Ratings for 2026. These adjustments could significantly impact insurers, affecting their ...
CMS released its first home- and community-based services quality measure set July 21 to promote consistent quality measurement within and across such programs. The measure set is intended to provide ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is providing up to $30 million in grant funding to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality ...
The Biden administration is proposing that acute care hospitals get a 3.2% increase in payments for federal fiscal 2023 and to install new quality measures focused on health equity. The Centers for ...
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, ...