The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the metrics used to the calculate the Medicare Advantage star ratings. | The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the ...

The agency suggested cutting a dozen quality measures where health plan performance is high and beneficiaries can’t easily ...

While most people think glycemic management is only a concern for people living with diabetes, in the inpatient setting there’s a lot more nuance: over one third of hospitalized patients experience ...

The CMS star ratings began as faint points of light helping patients navigate an increasingly complex galaxy of healthcare ...

CMS is proposing several changes to its controversial hospital star ratings program that lobby groups and health policy experts hope can help fix some major flaws. The program, long blasted by ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The NLA and ASPC released a joint perspective on the importance of LDL measurement and control as a CMS quality ...

The latest annual List of Measures under Consideration is part of a broader "Meaningful Metrics" initiative launched in 2017 to reduce red tape for providers. Most of the 2020 quality and efficiency ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are a new Medicare provider type that will allow Medicare to pay for emergency department and other outpatient hospital services in rural areas beginning on January 1, ...