A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine ® experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its ...

The percentage of physicians’ pay tied to quality of care would double in 2016 under draft regulations released by the Medicare program this month, according to a Kaiser Health News report. The ...

Results from a study suggest pay-for-performance hospital programs may need to be tailored to the specific healthcare organization in order to yield the greatest effect on healthcare quality, ...

Many health systems behind CMS’ 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations disagree with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s approach to quality measurement and are demanding changes to ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The overall quality of health care delivered to Americans is worse than it should be.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule this week that would change how Medicare pays for dialysis services for Medicare beneficiaries who have end-stage renal disease. The ...

For decades, Medicare’s approach to improving the care a patient receives has remained largely unchanged: Reward success and penalize failure. But clinicians and policy experts have long questioned ...