Most medical practices do not think Medicare Part B quality reporting programs enhance the quality of patient care, and believe the programs actually negatively affect practice resources, efficiency ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

With mandatory Alternative Payment Model Performance Pathway (APP) Reporting beginning in Performance Year 2025, the time to act is now. Reporting quality on all beneficiaries marks a major shift, ...

The Meaningful Use program is ending after all. Sort of. A new plan to implement the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) would effectively replace Meaningful Use for ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, hospitals and health systems will be required to report data on 76 measures for CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program to receive full Medicare reimbursement in 2015 ...

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Medicare Advantage plans’ varied interpretations of skilled nursing rules that apply to all beneficiaries in traditional Medicare could complicate federal regulators’ efforts to collect more quality ...

Fewer than 200,000 out of more than 600,000 eligible physicians reported measures for CMS’ Physician Quality Reporting System in 2010 — a worrisome finding since the program will turn punitive in 2013 ...