CMS issued a request for proposals for Hospital Improvement and Innovation Networks initiative Wednesday. HIINs will be tasked with helping reduce overall patient harm by 20 percent and readmissions ...
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Medicare initially focused on cost monitoring measures when thinking about quality assurance. However, it now aims to ensure beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, impartial, and effective ...
On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Final Rule (CMS-2439-F), effective July 9, 2024, aimed at ...
As discussed in last week’s Regs & Eggs blog post, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released additional budget documents to support the department’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 ...
CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be collecting new data on nursing homes’ “readiness” to access, share and use electronic data — a precursor for a new pilot that could include skilled ...
New research from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute found that most Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality measures designated as "topped out" by the Centers for Medicare & ...
Most for-profit nursing home industry administrators receive a staffing budget based on finances, not acuity or clinical need. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final minimum staffing rule ...
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