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 ...

A new-look Medicare Advantage (MA) quality bonus program would better incentivize insurers and help individuals choose a more appropriate plan, a report from Urban Institute finds. Authors Robert ...

For quite some time I have been an advocate of reforming the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program. It’s an oxymoron to have a quality improvement program that turns out to be poor quality.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued guidance on state-directed payment quality evaluations, ...

Carrots and sticks have been the name of Medicare’s quality improvement game for years. But policy experts say the strategy ...

Quality improvement organizations involved in CMS' Quality Innovation Network claim recent funding cuts are forcing them to significantly reduce staff and prevent them from fulfilling new obligations ...

CMS issued a request for proposals for Hospital Improvement and Innovation Networks initiative Wednesday. HIINs will be tasked with helping reduce overall patient harm by 20 percent and readmissions ...

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 Medicare Advantage quality bonus program, established by the Affordable Care Act as part of a package of MA reforms, was expected to reduce payments to MA organizations. But according to a new ...

When it comes to quality of medical care and patient safety, South Dakota hospitals generally fared well in new rankings by ...

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 ...