Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years.

A federal workgroup tasked with reviewing national quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services has delivered its biennial report, calling for the removal of three measures and the ...

Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

As science races to address COVID-19, among the weaknesses highlighted by the pandemic is our inability to rapidly develop clinical guidelines, related decision supports, and quality measures to ...

The National Association of ACOs is the latest to respond to CMS electronic quality measure goals. Which challenge to tackle first in digital quality reporting? The National Association of ACOs ...

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, chief scientific officer of The National Quality Forum, explained that the 2 gaps that exist in quality measurement currently include data infrastructure and patient ...

As someone who leads an integrated health care delivery system, this is a question I frequently find myself asking. The obvious answer, of course, is to develop measurements based on treatment ...

“When we ask people to deliver quality metrics and show what they have done, can we bring that information back to them in a usable format? Can we as payers take it and use it to reward? Can we use it ...