Many health systems behind CMS’ 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations disagree with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s approach to quality measurement and are demanding changes to ...

A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine ® experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its ...

House Republicans have proposed a plan that would slowly shift Medicare reimbursement to a combination of fee-for-service and pay-for-performance, according to a Medscape Medical News report. The ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule that allows for the release and use of standardized extracts of Medicare claims data for qualified entities to measure the ...