The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the metrics used to the calculate the Medicare Advantage star ratings. | The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the ...

The agency suggested cutting a dozen quality measures where health plan performance is high and beneficiaries can’t easily ...

While most people think glycemic management is only a concern for people living with diabetes, in the inpatient setting there’s a lot more nuance: over one third of hospitalized patients experience ...

The methods used to compare quality between one Medicare Advantage (MA) plan and another are so seriously flawed that the system needs an overhaul, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...

The CMS star ratings began as faint points of light helping patients navigate an increasingly complex galaxy of healthcare ...

CMS is proposing several changes to its controversial hospital star ratings program that lobby groups and health policy experts hope can help fix some major flaws. The program, long blasted by ...

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...

Through its proposed Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is building on administration-level priorities to better assess disparities in ...

Rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are a new Medicare provider type that will allow Medicare to pay for emergency department and other outpatient hospital services in rural areas beginning on January 1, ...