Category: Quality Improvement
State Efforts to Improve Perinatal Healthcare
State Efforts to Improve Perinatal Healthcare Advancing quality of healthcare continues to be a focus for many states, even as they continue to tackle the impacts of the COVID-19 public ...
Mandatory Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Core Set Reporting
Mandatory Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Core Set Reporting In August 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule, which, if promulgated, would ...
Health Policy News – February 2021
In the month since the presidential inauguration, the Biden administration has been busy putting its mark on U.S. health policy. A new Marketplace Open Enrollment Period has begun, and the ...
Migrating Incentives from Measurement to Learning
Over the past three decades, an overreliance on quality measures as a material driving factor in value-based payment (VBP) arrangements has created an adverse trade-off within delivery systems: achieve short ...
Health Policy News – September 2020
As we head into fall, individual states and our entire nation continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, while simultaneously addressing other policy needs and opportunities. At Health Policy News, ...
Reducing Racial Disparities: Quality Improvement in Developmental Disability System Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has further compounded healthcare disparities faced by people of color and members of the disability community—a fact demonstrated in the National Association of State Directors of Developmental ...
Critical Incident Management Solutions in Medicaid Long-Term Care
Medicaid agencies must assure the health and safety of their Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver program recipients by managing the reporting, investigation, and prevention of incidents. Failure to do ...
Current state of CMS quality rating programs
For Marketplace plans, quality is coming to the forefront as Quality Rating System (QRS) and Quality Improvement Strategy (QIS) requirements are rolled out for Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) starting in ...