The past decade has seen an unprecedented level of concern and action focused on improving the quality of American health care. Catalyzed in part by two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports—To Err Is ...

The committee recommends that the federal government accelerate, expand, and coordinate its use of standardized performance measurement and reporting to improve health care quality. RECOMMENDATION 3: ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

Value-based payment (VBP) is designed to support collaborative partnerships between patients and physicians, improve the quality of care and reduce health care spending. To achieve these aims, VBP for ...

On July 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released its first-ever nationally standardized Home- and Community-Based Services (“HCBS”) quality measure set to encourage ...

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Like most health systems, DeKalb Medical reports quality performance metrics to a board of directors on a regular basis. And in the context of performance measures, core measures and Centers for ...

Including members in over 145 countries, the ACP is the largest medical specialty organization in the US, with a membership base of 160,000 internal medicine physicians, related subspecialists, and ...

In 2012 Medicare introduced the quality bonus program, linking financial bonuses to commercial insurers’ quality performance in Medicare Advantage (MA). Despite large investments in the program, ...

Obesity is a serious chronic disease and risk factor for a broad range of outcomes. This study identifies opportunities for improving quality in obesity care. Objectives: To evaluate the ...