In late January, the coordinating committee of the Measure Applications Partnership—a public-private partnership of the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...

The highest scorer in the nation in CMS’ Core Measures process-of-care program in 2009 was 235-bed Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., an affiliate of Community Health Systems, which operates 122 ...

CMS recently issued final rules for its value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Beginning in fiscal year 2013, which starts on Oct. 1, 2012, CMS will offer hospitals an incentive payment for ...

Hospitals accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) have been shown to perform better in the heart attack core measures established by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as ...

Emergency departments (EDs) across the country are at their breaking points due to excessive boarding of patients waiting to be admitted to the hospital. You may have read of the unfortunate man who ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week published the 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in tandem with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, issued a request for information this week – wanting to hear from providers and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking states to use Medicaid payments to incentivize better outcomes for nursing home residents and improve staffing. CMS issued a bulletin on Monday ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glytec, the only provider of cloud-based insulin management software across the continuum of care, today revealed details about its inaugural conference on glycemic ...

Glytec, the leading provider of AI-powered diabetes and glycemic management for hospitals and health systems, today announced an expanded partnership with Parkview Health, a not-for-profit health ...