It’s the second year for CMS’s value-based payment modifier (VBM) program, a part of the Affordable Care Act using Medicare reimbursements to...Read More »
For the last two years, healthcare organizations have been working to comply with the first phase of The Joint Commission's alarm management...Read More »
The average medical practice spends 785 hours a year on quality measure reporting. That’s equivalent to 98 eight-hour days being used to check...Read More »
There’s around 1 million American physicians who’re allowed to write opioid prescriptions, or one out of 320 Americans. However, fewer than 32,000...Read More »
CMS has begun adopting the preventable quality indicators (PQI) rate into its incentive and penalty program as a way to measure the number of...Read More »
This is an opinion, written by someone who in the interest of full disclosure is a director of patient experience and worked for the Studer...Read More »
Healthcare can be a stressful industry to work in, particularly when something goes wrong. Instead of relying on humans to react under pressure...Read More »
In a few years’ time, all of Medicare and 70% of all private plans will have switched to the newly announced Core Quality Measurement system.Read More »