Board members told the Palm Beach Post they took the "claims raised in the anonymous letter very seriously and responded ...

In 2015, CMS implemented SEP-1 to promote timely sepsis care. SEP-1 requires clinicians to complete a well-defined set of interventions within 3 hours of recognizing sepsis.

Manama, Oct. 9 (BNA): As part of Bahrain Bourse’s (BHB) efforts to develop the capital market in the Kingdom and enhance market liquidity, Bahrain Bourse announced that it has approved Q Market Makers ...

According to a memo issued when CMS launched the program, facilities found to have related coding inaccuracies in their MDS records would have their overall Quality Measure rating and long-stay QM ...

Medicare officials say the ratings are adjusted to take into account the kinds of patients a hospital serves, such as the trauma center as Baptist. The overall review provides quality measure ...

This mechanism of Medicaid-focused quality measure development may serve as a blueprint as CMS continues to fill measurement gaps and build out the Universal Foundation. Furthermore, Medicaid ...

CMS said in the report that regaining the progress made in quality measure performance from before the pandemic "will necessitate strategic actions to return to prepandemic levels and improve the ...

The NLA and ASPC released a joint perspective on the importance of LDL measurement and control as a CMS quality metric. Statin prescription may be a poor metric of LDL control due to risk for low ...

The CMS effort is not specific to primary care ... Furthermore, it specifies that “Each quality measure shall be patient-centered, appropriate for a primary care setting, and supported by ...