Please join the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team, who will provide an update on CMS’ recent accomplishments and how our cross-cutting initiatives are advancing the CMS Strategic Plan. Our second National…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published an update to the 2020 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG). The update provides information on a new COVID-19 Clinical Trials Improvement Activity for eligible clinicians for…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications for the 2025 performance/reporting period for: Eligible Hospitals (EH) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), and Eligible Clinician (EC…
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Public comments ensure measures are developed and maintained using a transparent process with balanced input from relevant interested parties. Public comment periods provide an opportunity for the widest array of interested parties to provide input on the measures, both under development and in use…
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Quality in Motion: Acting on the CMS National Quality Strategy is CMS’s latest update to the 2022 National Quality Strategy, which was launched to improve the quality and safety of health care for everyone, focusing on those from underserved and under-resourced communities. In the action plan, you…
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Register today for the virtual 2023 CMS Quality Conference, Building Resilient Communities: Having an Equitable Foundation for Quality Healthcare! Join in from May 1-3, 2023, to explore and learn from patients, expert advocates, providers, researchers, and champions of healthcare quality…
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Join CMS on March 2-3, 2021 for the virtual 2021 CMS Quality Conference.
Sign up to receive the most up-to-date information regarding registration opening and conference details at Sign up – CMS Quality Conference.
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In fiscal year (FY) 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Final Rule, which finalized updated electronic…
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has updated the Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) with several additional provisional terminology codes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of 4/23/2020, the following standard terminologies (CPT®, LOINC®, and SNOMED CT®) have added provisional codes in…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to remind eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program of the calendar year (CY) 2023 certified electronic health record (EHR) technology (CEHRT) requirements.…