An exploration of potential negative effects from delays in measure maintenance when changes in clinical evidence affect measure use found that delays may affect patient care and outcomes. To be ...

A federal watchdog wants the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to get better at ensuring its quality measures actually match its strategic objectives aimed at improving care quality and ...

CMS quality measures might not indicate the actual care patients receive, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The GAO studied how the agency decides what quality measures to ...

While most of the public discourse on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has centered on coverage, affordability, payment and state-operated health exchanges, healthcare providers are ...

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 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) have introduced a comprehensive list of clinical performance measures intended to target meaningful gaps in care, and that ...

Between 2008 and 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invested more than $1.3 billion to develop and maintain quality measures to be used to promote healthcare quality and quality ...

November 10, 2021 – At psychiatric hospitals and other inpatient behavioral health facilities, good performance on routine quality measures does not necessarily lead to improvement in symptoms and ...