Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 11 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2026.
This week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside down.
The Unit Safety Score provides a comprehensive, weighted measure of inpatient safety performance by tracking eleven key domains across harm and best practice events. Calculated on a rolling three-month basis, the score is designed to help healthcare nursing units identify and address preventable…
On June 26, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2025 proposed rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS). CMS’ continued application of such large behavioral adjustments may threaten access to HH care for beneficiaries and, in…
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) on April 10th proposed a new mandatory bundled payment model called the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM).
Connecting our stories with measurement drives understanding of our challenges and empowers an organization’s collective “why.” Examine why data and the story it tells are “mission critical” to TeamSTEPPS success, and review some examples that demonstrate the power of data to inform and inspire. (…
AHA provides feedback on CMS' Episode Based Payment request for information.
As some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and loosening restrictions on the growth of existing POHs, new data from Dobson | DaVanzo show that POHs report fewer quality measures and perform…
Dobson | DaVanzo recently examined Medicare claims data comparing demographic and clinical characteristics of facilities and patients receiving care at physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and all other acute care hospitals (non-POHs). That report showed that relative to POHs, non-POHs care for older,…
The AHA is deeply concerned that CMS is proposing a CY 2024 outpatient hospital payment update of only 2.8% despite persistent financial headwinds facing the hospital field.