CMS is reducing pressure on state survey agencies to make up for time lost during a federal government shutdown last fall.

In late May, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its latest performance report for the nation’s 55 Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), the nonprofits responsible for ...

CMS on Thursday released the 2015 quality and financial results for its Pioneer and Medicare Shared Savings Programs. Despite that less than a third of ACOs earned shared savings payments, the data ...

CMS has released a final rule that allows for the use of standardized extracts of Medicare claims data for qualified entities to measure healthcare providers’ and suppliers’ performance. Under the new ...

The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the metrics used to the calculate the Medicare Advantage star ratings. As part of the Contract Year 2027 MA and Part D proposed rule, the ...

CMS has been trying to scale value-based care for decades with mixed results — but the agency’s newly announced ACCESS model could represent a more meaningful step toward aligning payment with ...

The Situation: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") has announced significant changes to its value-based payment model portfolio projected to save $750 million as part of a shift in ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule that allows for the release and use of standardized extracts of Medicare claims data for qualified entities to measure the ...