The imaging appropriate use criteria program should be combined with existing CMS quality programs. This would recognize the recent proliferation of programs and metrics intended to promote ...

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 ...

Clinical quality measures implemented into federal quality programs are vetted by organizations such as CMS’s consensus-based entity by applying a set of criteria against individual measures to assess ...

Medicare Advantage's quality bonus program has had no observable difference in plan quality despite costly federal investments, a new study suggests, bolstering calls from some stakeholders to ...

Drexel University’s Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality and research compliance consistent with best practices for quality, integrity, ...

Whether we will pay now or pay more later is being debated in our Statehouse. An amendment to the Senate version of Ohio's two-year budget pushed by Senate President Matt Huffman would remove the Step ...

The UAB Department of Health Services Administration Graduate Program in Healthcare Quality and Safety has received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management in ...

The Medicare Advantage quality bonus program, established by the Affordable Care Act as part of a package of MA reforms, was expected to reduce payments to MA organizations. But according to a new ...

Measures of quality can include assessing structural components of a health care delivery system, processes of care, or outcomes of care. 1 To appreciate the impact of quality programs on cancer care, ...