Nursing homes could soon be measured on their ability to capture advance care planning documents for their patients.

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...

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 ...

Top Medicare and Medicaid officials want to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures aligned across all programs in a bid to ease reporting burdens and confusion. Officials with the Centers ...

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

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS)’s decision to recalculate its quality ratings for private Medicare Advantage health plans is making headlines, as first reported by The Wall Street ...

Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace officials are hoping to get more plans into value-based care arrangements as regulators hope to not just build on getting people covered, according to federal ...

Ensuring excellent quality and outcomes is the essential goal of medical care. To achieve it, a multitude of quality metrics have been added to clinicians’ work. They include things such as ...