Quality improvement has become a hot buzz phrase in today’s health care environment, partially driven by quality reporting programs, such as the Physician Quality Reporting … Read More ›
Category: Patient Care & Quality
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a major update to its Medicaid Managed care rules. It would be the first major update … Read More ›
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania is seeking providers who are willing to test electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for possible inclusion in the Centers for Medicare … Read More ›
Pennsylvania Poll Shows Patients’ Access about the Same or Better, But Increased Out-of-Pocket Costs
A poll of 700 Pennsylvanians age 21 and older suggests patients are able to schedule appointments with doctors easily, but their out-of-pocket expenses appear to … Read More ›
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council’s (PHC4’s) 2013 Hospital Performance Report (HPR) shows that in-hospital mortality rates dropped significantly statewide between 2008 and 2013 … Read More ›
The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently previewed their new patient-centered medical home (PCMH) standards. These new standards, which will launch on March 24, 2014, … Read More ›
On Aug. 21 and 22, 2014, the PA Health Equity Conference is being held at the Radisson Convention Center in Camp Hill, with the goal … Read More ›
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses Social Security Numbers (SSNs) to assign each beneficiary a health insurance claim number. This is required … Read More ›