The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be pausing Nursing Home Care Compare updates. The agency announced the temporary pause to ensure ...

Hospitals were the first providers required by CMS to report quality measures or face financial sanctions for non-participation. However, with the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, Congress gave ...

The proposed CMS quality measure should include continuous electronic monitoring.” Robert Stoelting, MD, president of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, agrees with this assessment.

CMS has delayed implementation of a sepsis inpatient quality measure intended to begin Jan. 1, 2015 for fiscal year 2017 inpatient quality reporting.

As states continue to shift resources and attention to home- and community-based services, ensuring those services are accessible and high quality feed into efforts at the federal level to create a ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is providing up to $30 million in grant funding to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality ...