A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine ® experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its proposed payment rules for general acute care ...
A mandatory CMS pay-for-performance model aimed at boosting home dialysis and kidney transplant rates showed no meaningful ...
The percentage of physicians’ pay tied to quality of care would double in 2016 under draft regulations released by the Medicare program this month, according to a Kaiser Health News report. The ...
On April 11, 2025, CMS proposed a rule that would update policies and payment rates used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for FY 2026 (Proposed Rule). The ...
For decades, Medicare’s approach to improving the care a patient receives has remained largely unchanged: Reward success and penalize failure. But clinicians and policy experts have long questioned ...
Clinical quality measures implemented into federal quality programs are vetted by organizations such as CMS’s consensus-based entity by applying a set of criteria against individual measures to assess ...
Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The overall quality of health care delivered to Americans is worse than it should be.
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