The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 15 published the Measures Under Consideration List for 2025. These are ...

Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.

CMS floats measures changes with 24 quality and efficiency updates for Medicare programs, inviting public feedback through Jan. 6.

CMS’ new ACCESS model, slated to begin on July 1, aims to shift traditional Medicare fee-for-service toward value-based care ...

We have worked many overnight shifts in the ED caring for a hallway full of admitted patients because there were no inpatient ...

Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace officials are hoping to get more plans into value-based care arrangements as regulators hope to not just build on getting people covered, according to federal ...

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 ...

In a January 4 Health Affairs Forefront article, “Options for CMS Drug Price Negotiations,” Daniel Ollendorf and Dominic Voehler discuss pricing methodologies based on how much a drug improves health.

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 ...

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 ...