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← Older postsCMS Names New Top Senior Executives
January 17, 2014CMS has moved quickly to replace two recently departed senior executives. The experience levels of the announced replacements should allay concerns that the mini-exodus, which some saw as fallout from launch issues with HealthCare.gov, would hurt agency operations, former CMS … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence | Leave a commentCMS Releases Charges For Outpatient Hospital Procedures
June 13, 2013Less than a month after the CMS released data on what hospitals charge for inpatient procedures, the agency has released similar information about the prices hospitals submit and are paid on the outpatient side.The greater transparency comes as hospitals have … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, Health IT, Health IT Services, HHS | Leave a commentCMS Publishes Hospital Charge Data
May 10, 2013In an effort to take the first steps toward a more transparent pricing structure in the U.S. healthcare market, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday published nationwide hospital charge data showing wide variations in how much Medicare pays … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Services, Patient Experience | Leave a commentCMS To Assess Quality Measures
April 19, 2013Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is partnering with Cambridge, Mass.-based analytics firm GNS Healthcare and Health Services Advisory Group to assess CMS quality measures. GNS officials say the firm will deploy its REFS, or Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation, … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, HHS | Leave a commentCMS Changes Course, Will Raise 2014 Medicare Advantage Payments
April 8, 2013Under a withering barrage of pressure from the insurance industry, seniors groups and Congressional members from both sides of the aisle, CMS on Monday did an about face and significantly raised its 2014 growth percentage estimate for the Medicare Advantage … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Medicare | Leave a commentCMS Launches New eHealth Website
March 1, 2013The CMS launched the eHealth initiative this week as a central repository for information on the federal government’s digital record-keeping and electronic prescribing initiatives.The page provides a central location to search the CMS site for details of the major digital … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, e-Health, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services | Leave a commentCMS To Rollout New Records System For Long Term Hospital Care
February 20, 2013The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will develop a new records system that will facilitate quality reporting for long term hospital care, according to Federal Register notice posted on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Specific quality metrics quantifying the care … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Patient Experience | Leave a commentThe FAH Urges Field Testing Of Electronic Quality Measures Reporting
February 5, 2013The Federation of American Hospitals supports goals outlined by the CMS to harmonize reporting of clinical quality measures, but warned that selected measures should be field-tested before being implemented as part of national quality reporting and payment programs.The Washington, D.C.-based … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged Clinical Quality Measures, CMS, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, ICD-10, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentCMS Exploring Electronic Submission Of Clinical Quality Measures
January 8, 2013The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) wants to explore whether hospitals will be able to begin submitting clinical quality measures through their electronic health record systems by 2014.On December 21, 2012, CMS published a Request for Information asking hospitals … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Policy, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentCMS Announces To States – Partial Medicaid Expansion Won’t Qualify For Full Funding
December 21, 2012Acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other CMS officials announced on Monday that states which embark on a partial expansion of their Medicaid systems would not qualify for the full 100 percent funding under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion … Continue reading
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