A federal workgroup tasked with reviewing national quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services has delivered its biennial report, calling for the removal of three measures and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) have issued the “2026 ACC/AHA Clinical Perfo ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the first-ever home- and community-based services quality measure set to promote consistent quality measurement within and across state ...

The board of directors at the National Quality Forum has endorsed 24 quality measures on surgical care performed in hospitals and in outpatient facilities. The measures address a wide range of ...

A Government Accountability Office report found failure to align quality measures across payers impeded providers’ ability to develop quality improvements for value-based care models, according to ...

In its annual update, CMS updated the electronic specifications of the clinical quality measures that were finalized in the stage 2 meaningful use rule. CMS encourages the implementation and use of ...

The revisions span multiple populations and conditions while addressing social determinants. As the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) advances digital quality measurement (dQM), it will ...

The fourth and final report in this Center for American Progress series highlighting best practices to improve and expand access to contraception at the state level focuses on the importance of ...