The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new tool for healthcare providers to help improve the quality of care, according to an agency release. The enhanced Quality Improvement ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasing scrutiny and oversight over the country's poorest-performing nursing facilities. CMS is toughening requirements for completion to the ...

With agencies dueling to regulate nursing homes, aligning priorities for a strategic compliance program may be more challenging than ever.

The Biden administration is proposing that acute care hospitals get a 3.2% increase in payments for federal fiscal 2023 and to install new quality measures focused on health equity. The Centers for ...

CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In ...

While providers aren’t required to follow OIG recommendations, a compliance program based on their guidance can spare ...

On October 21, 2022, CMS announced new actions to increase accountability and scrutiny on nursing homes in the Special Focus Facilities Program (SFF Program), an oversight program for the poorest ...

Seven Topeka nursing homes are among 43 in Kansas participating in a program to improve quality of care. The program, funded by Kansas and federal agencies, will provide staff training and implement ...

Noncompliance at deficiency tag F865 will be cited if surveyors find that a facility has not implemented and/or maintained a comprehensive QAPI program that addresses all the care and unique services ...

A new-look Medicare Advantage (MA) quality bonus program would better incentivize insurers and help individuals choose a more appropriate plan, a report from Urban Institute finds. Authors Robert ...