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 ...

New data show that hospitals’ and health systems’ relentless focus on safety and quality improvement is paying off for ...

The Core Quality Measures Collaborative Workgroup, initiated by AHIP and payer organizations, seeks to reduce, refine, and relate the healthcare delivery process. At the recent ...

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 ...

eSyM: An Electronic Health Record–Integrated Patient-Reported Outcomes–Based Cancer Symptom Management Program Used by Six Diverse Health Systems The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of ...

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 ...

In finalizing its initial core set of 26 healthcare quality measures for Medicaid-eligible adults, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services borrows heavily from quality measures already required ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of ...

Although patients with a primary mental health condition make up about 10 percent of pediatric hospitalizations, there is little research exploring care quality for these patients in hospital settings ...

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, ...

A Castleford care home that was placed in special measures by the health watchdog earlier this year has been told further ...