CMS Proposes Regulatory Changes in Medicare Quality Programs
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published [...]
Hospitals Improving on Medicare Value-Based Measures
U.S. hospitals continue to improve their performance under Medicare’s value-based [...]
Senate May Tackle Socio-economic Risk Adjustment
With a House bill to adjust Medicare payment penalties based [...]
Quality Program Sometimes Rewarding Low Quality
A 2015 change in Medicare’s value-based purchasing program has resulted [...]
Is Medicare “Pay for Performance” Doing the Job?
Three Medicare initiatives – its hospital readmissions reduction program, value-based [...]
Hospitals: “How’re We Doing?”
More hospitals are looking for feedback on their performance from [...]
Safety-Net Hospitals Struggle With Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing
Safety-net hospitals are more likely than others to fare poorly [...]
Medicare Giveth and Medicare Taketh Away
With a growing number of Medicare programs basing portions of [...]
Patient Satisfaction, Quality Not Necessarily Related
Patients who express satisfaction with the quality of the hospital [...]
Readmissions and Quality: Are They Related?
A new study casts doubt on a major principle underlying [...]
