The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new tool for healthcare providers to help improve the quality of care, according to an agency release. The enhanced Quality Improvement ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasing scrutiny and oversight over the country's poorest-performing nursing facilities. CMS is toughening requirements for completion to the ...

While providers aren’t required to follow OIG recommendations, a compliance program based on their guidance can spare ...

CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In ...

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 ...

Seven Topeka nursing homes are among 43 in Kansas participating in a program to improve quality of care. The program, funded by Kansas and federal agencies, will provide staff training and implement ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be collecting new data on nursing homes’ “readiness” to access, share and use electronic data — a precursor for a new pilot that could include skilled ...

On October 21, 2022, CMS announced new actions to increase accountability and scrutiny on nursing homes in the Special Focus Facilities Program (SFF Program), an oversight program for the poorest ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quality improvement is a broad term as it applies to health care, and as a major payer for the End-Stage Kidney ...

Editor’s note: Alice Brewer is the senior director of clinical affairs at PDI Healthcare. The latest list of hospitals facing federal penalties for poor quality has been released. Through hospital ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CarePlus Health Plans, Inc., Florida’s largest 5-star Medicare Advantage plan,* has been recognized by the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) with its Excellence in Quality award ...