New research from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute found that most Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) ...
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 ...
Quality measures (QMs) are performance tools for health plans and clinicians that are intended to assess and influence the quality and quantity of delivered health care. When QMs are thoughtfully ...
As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approaches the goal of tying 90 percent of traditional Medicare payments to the value of care delivered, 1 risk adjustment—adjusting quality ...
With quality measure saturation in value-based contracts, many primary care physicians feel set up to fail. Research conducted at the Providence health system shows primary care physicians are ...
The committee was charged with identifying measures of quality for the Leading Health Indicators (LHIs), and in this chapter it provides a starter set of measures identified by developing detailed ...
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 ...
Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, ...
The quality-measurement movement began more than 20 years ago and has resulted in transparent quality-performance information, accountability, and improvements. At the same time, proliferation of ...
The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.
eSyM: An Electronic Health Record–Integrated Patient-Reported Outcomes–Based Cancer Symptom Management Program Used by Six Diverse Health Systems The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of ...