For healthcare leaders pursuing value-based care, success depends on transforming quality data into a strategic asset without ...

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.

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some ...

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 ...

Additional measures can be added and/or modified by CMS each year along with further changes to payment determination. The following table depicts each measure, its definition and its timing.

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 on Monday issued a reminder to providers that it plans to implement the quality measure rating threshold changes with the April 2022 refresh.

This investment has yielded a grand total of 2266 quality measures, only 788 of which have been implemented or finalized for use in a CMS program. Top five awardees received $872.9M.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could change that by enacting the first-ever measures in a federal quality or payment program that offers incentives to physician practices and ...

The measures were created to assess quality and outcomes across a wide range of key areas, though some are only applicable for certain types of care delivery systems, CMS said. One major focus is ...

CMS also is placing a focus on digital quality measures and reporting based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, with a goal of easier data transmission between different ...

CMS updated its Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System on July 27 to include weekend staffing rates for nurses and information on annual turnover among nurses and administrators.