CMS outlined the initial steps it will take to create quality measures aligned across all of the agency's programs, with the first measures released.

Given the tension between measuring all important aspects of quality and reducing measure proliferation, CMS is proposing a move toward a “universal foundation” of quality measures.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 30 issued its calendar year 2026 proposed rule for the home health ...

Proposed quality measures from CMS in its Universal Foundation fall largely on primary care to collect and improve, and do not align with the high-value functions of primary care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the launch of the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service ...

CMS is considering adding 20 quality measures to some of Medicare's quality and value-based payment programs. All but three of the proposed measures would have to be collected digitally, ...

CMS quality measures might not indicate the actual care patients receive, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.. The GAO studied how the agency decides what quality measures ...

Half of quality measures from CMS’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS, that are relevant to home-based primary care for older adults were considered “unusable” because they lacked ...

The 2023 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, released Aug. 1, outlined 10 new quality reporting measures, including equity and social risk factor data, rates of cesarean ...

In a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma sent Tuesday, the American Hospital Association asked CMS to "use only measures that truly matter." CMS currently publishes information on nearly 90 ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In December 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formally approved a new quality measure developed by the Quality Team at North ...

In late January, the coordinating committee of the Measure Applications Partnership—a public-private partnership of the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...