The industry has tended to be so focused on what needs to be improved in healthcare, that we have not given enough attention to systemically addressing how these improvements will be made. While ...

CMS proposed new payment and quality reporting measures for 2026 on July 15. Here are CMS’ four proposals for the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program included in the policy release: 1 ...

Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

When it comes to improving quality measure performance, too many providers continue to respond to fire alarms while neglecting what’s setting those alarms off, a leading MDS expert is warning. “We ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Key takeaways from the National Kidney Foundation’s new HEDIS and MIPS quality measures for patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes. Neil B. Minkoff, MD: If I can be flippant about ...

While much of the attention this week from the Trump administration's executive order on transparency focused on prices, there's also a section of it that calls for alignment of quality measures ...

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.

A new study that examined six ways of measuring staff variability in US nursing homes highlights specific tools regulators could use to refine how they rate staffing for consumers. The findings showed ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quality Engine, the administrative measure logic and systematic sample processing component of Cotiviti’s Quality Intelligence solution, has earned Certified Measures ...

About 1.2 million people reside in a nursing home in the United States - for short- or long-term care - on any given day. U.S. News and World Report recently released its annual evaluation of 15,000 ...