Hospital Quality Reporting Update Available
The Hospital Quality Reporting Center Spring 2018 newsletter is now available. This issue contains information for acute care hospitals, critical access hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities and PPS-exempt cancer hospitals. Topics covered include: BREAKING NEWS!...
MyHealthEData: Putting Patients at the Center
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently renewed its commitment to interoperability with the MyHealthEData initiative, which aims to ensure patients have comprehensive access to their own health data. The initiative focuses on providing...
CMS Commitment to Putting Patients First
Federal Initiative to Put Patients in Control of Their Health Data The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the launch of the MyHealthEData initiative, which CMS Administrator Seema Verma says is the first time any administration has set in...
New Medicare Card Webinars for Consumers, Medicare Beneficiaries & Caregivers
Your patients’ will start to receive their new Medicare ID cards next month (April 2018). Get ready and be prepared to help eliminate confusion and hassle. As a reminder, recent legislation requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to...
Patients Over Paperwork
Putting patients first is a top national priority…. In October, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the “Patients over Paperwork” initiative, which is in accord with President Trump’s Executive Order that directs federal agencies to “cut the red tape” to...
CMS Announces New Payment Model
CMS announces new payment model to improve quality, coordination and cost-effectiveness for both inpatient and outpatient care Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center)...
How Many Medicare Beneficiaries Are Enrolled In An Accountable Care Organization (ACO)?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients. As of 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
CMS Finalizes Changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model
CMS finalizes changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model, cancels Episode Payment Models and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the cancellation of the mandatory hip...
Eligible Hospitals and CAHs: The Meaningful Use Attestation System is Moving
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing to take steps to make attestation simpler for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. What is Changing?...
Compare Hospice Providers on Measures of Care Quality
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is sharing information about hospice providers to permit the public to compare hospice providers on measures of care quality. The Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) was established at section 1814(i)(5) of...