Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some ...

A federal watchdog Wednesday called on regulators to strengthen the Special Focus Facility program for nursing homes, saying that most facilities that graduate do not sustain improvements. Providers ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

After waiting more than nine months, skilled nursing providers are getting their first look at updated and unfrozen quality measures that are likely contributing to lower star ratings sector-wide.

Creating and Maintaining Quality Improvement Metrics: Q&A With John Lytle of Triangle Endoscopy Center John Lytle, administrator at Triangle Endoscopy Center in Durham, N.C., explains how the center ...

MADISON, Wis., June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) is proud to announce it has been awarded a 13th Scope of Work (SOW) by the Centers for Medicare & ...

Hospital programs providing at-home acute care are widely appreciated by patients and clinicians but still don’t have a bulletproof argument in respect to quality and costs as compared to a ...

Healthmine clients outperformed national averages in the 2026 CMS Star Ratings, with over 30% achieving 4 stars or higher.

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 ...

Stakeholders in the Medicare value-based care world have without a doubt heard of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and alternative payment models (APMs).