CMS quality measures might not indicate the actual care patients receive, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. The GAO studied how the agency decides what quality measures to ...

The CMS star ratings began as faint points of light helping patients navigate an increasingly complex galaxy of healthcare ...

The agency suggested cutting a dozen quality measures where health plan performance is high and beneficiaries can’t easily ...

On November 25, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that puts forth policy and technical changes to ...

Patrick Conway, MD, serves as the acting principal deputy administrator and deputy administrator for innovation and quality for CMS, as well as serving as the agency’s CMO. In a recent Q&A with QIO ...

CMS will begin increasing quality measure thresholds by 50% of the average rate of improvement in QM score, and will do this every six months. The agency hopes the change will “drive continuous ...

While most people think glycemic management is only a concern for people living with diabetes, in the inpatient setting there’s a lot more nuance: over one third of hospitalized patients experience ...

Hospitals reported widespread adoption of quality improvement (QI) changes to improve on CMS quality measures, and QI adoption was associated with improved performance on quality measures. Objectives: ...

Between 2008 and 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invested more than $1.3 billion to develop and maintain quality measures to be used to promote healthcare quality and quality ...

Quality reporting is an essential revenue cycle task tied closely to reimbursement, but it can cost providers big time, a new study says. CMS says it collects quality data from hospitals paid under ...

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 ...

This year, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has signaled a strong commitment to improving an often-overlooked area of inpatient care – glycemic management. For health system executives ...