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 ...

Longevity Health today announced it earned 3 of the 10 Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) Quality Awards awarded nationwide in ...

An Urban Institute report finds ways for insurers to collaborate together on improving quality outcomes. (Getty Images/Ca-ssis) A new-look Medicare Advantage (MA) quality bonus program would better ...

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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 & ...

Policymakers should preserve the achievements of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement registry while recognizing that ...

The Quality Pathway can drive greater care improvements through the use of multiple complementary levers of change, such as jointly using payment incentives and care delivery requirements to support a ...

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 ...