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 ...

Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.

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 ...

For the first time in its six-year history, the National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership is advocating that federal agencies remove several healthcare performance measures. #NQF's Dr.

Existing diabetes quality metrics do not currently help patients improve their health and diabetes quality measurement must be improved through the adoption of new measures and modernization, ...

Rodney Hayward, MD, and Sheldon Greenfield, MD, discussed the benefits of quality care measures and explored some of the remaining areas for improvement. Some groups advocate for the use of composite ...

In February of this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its “Universal Foundation” for aligning quality measures across its own programs. The CMS effort is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

When effectively integrated into healthcare systems, well-vetted and scientifically backed healthcare quality measures can have significant impacts on patient health, stressed Shantanu Agrawal, MD, ...