The nursing home quality information reported in Nursing Home Compare on www.medicare.gov comes from two CMS resources.

According to CMS, the quality measures (QMs) are calculated using information from the Minimum Data Set (MDS).

Six “chronic” care quality measures are to be used for public reporting in the national rollout.

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) established quality standards for all laboratory testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability and timeliness of patient test results regardless...

The term “participating provider” has different meanings for different provider types.

June 8, 2001, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an initiative to reduce regulatory burdens in health care and respond faster to the concerns of health care providers, state and...

Medicare is an insurance program.

CMS has headquarters in Baltimore and Washington.

CMS is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

According to a Wall Street analysis conducted for CMS, here are several: • Wall Street is more pessimistic than in the past about sector prospects. • Higher Medicare payments are subsidizing lower...