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 ...

CMS pitches hospital pay with a 2.4% increase and launches a mandatory joint replacement payment model starting fiscal year ...

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 ...

Vermont Business Magazine IPRO was recently awarded a contract from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to serve as the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization ...

Medicare’s value-based programs are penalizing inpatient hospitals for community-level health equity factors that impact outcomes but are largely out of hospitals’ control, according to a recent ...

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.

In this article, we outline actionable strategies for strengthening one of the most essential administrative data assets—encounter data—and explain how improving this resource can unlock the ...

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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 ...

TruCBN(TM) demonstrated statistically significant improvement in sleep quality in a published RCT and is supported by a full ...