The Biden administration is pushing to resolve big gaps in the quality and accuracy of data on health equity as it installs new requirements for payers and providers. The Centers for Medicare & ...

Regulatory changes to the nursing home industry for this year may seem small individually, but together, they reflect broader initiatives sought by the ...

Legislators who authored the Physician Payments Sunshine Act — Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) — are again putting pressure on CMS, insisting in an open letter the ...

Federal officials are considering significantly expanding how much information nursing homes must record in the Minimum Data Set, potentially adding reporting for patients outside of Medicare to ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its strategy to improve health equity across the agency, detailing actions on how providers can identify and close gaps in care. CMS’ ...

Presenters from CMS and the CDC explored the importance of standardizing health equity data collection at the 2024 CMS Health Equity Conference. Meagan Khau, MHA, director of the Data Analytics & ...

A warning letter sent late last week by federal regulators about nursing home debt collection practices was overblown and obscured another significant problem, operations experts said over the weekend ...