Medicare's system for investigating complaints about poor care is "broken" and provides "no benefit to improving the overall quality" of care received by Medicare beneficiaries, Senate Finance ...

Providers Would Have to Give All Beneficiaries Written Notice of Their Rights The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule today that would require most ...

Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee ranking member Max Baucus (D-Mont.) in a letter dated May 12 asked CMS Administrator Mark McClellan to address questions about the ...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., July 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a Quality Innovation Network - Quality Improvement Organization ...

Medicare readmissions have dropped nationwide, by 12.55 percent, according to CMS data, but communities with Quality Improvement Organizations saw a slightly larger drop in Medicare readmissions. In ...

For quite some time I have been an advocate of reforming the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program. It’s an oxymoron to have a quality improvement program that turns out to be poor quality.

The old man slept quietly as his daughter sat by his hospital bed. Suddenly, an aide walked in and announced that a move was imminent. "Your time here is up," Bonnie Miller Rubin remembers the aide ...

MADISON, Wis., June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) is proud to announce it has been awarded a 13th Scope of Work (SOW) by the Centers for Medicare & ...

As nursing homes are pushed to improve quality, a major resource has had to pause due to a lack of a new contract. The American Health Quality Association, which represents 13 quality improvement ...

More than 200 health professionals from across Connecticut learn about Communities of Care at a recent Care Transition Leadership Academy held at The Aqua Turf in Southington. Qualidigm’s Connecticut ...