Commitment to Person-Centered Care for Long-Term Care Facility Residents
It’s an experience millions of Americans go through each year, the difficult decisions we face when considering a long-term care facility for a loved one. We want to know that our family member will be safe, properly cared for, and receive the highest quality of care.
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MEMPHIS, TENN. — atom Alliance, a regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) working under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), reports steady progress in its second year of a multi-year effort to reduce unnecessary use of antipsychotic medications among nursing home residents in the states it serves. Across the atom Alliance region, which includes Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, program efforts resulted in a 12.9 percent relative improvement rate; reducing the unnecessary prescribing and use of antipsychotic medications from 22.67 in 2013 to 19.75 percent in 2015.
CMS Updates Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Ratings
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the popular Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Ratings to incorporate new measures, giving families more information at their fingertips to help them make important decisions about care. These new measures look at successful discharges, emergency visits, and re-hospitalizations, and
CMS proposes to test new Medicare Part B prescription drug models to improve quality of care and deliver better value for Medicare beneficiaries
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule to test new models to improve how Medicare Part B pays for prescription drugs and supports physicians and other clinicians in delivering higher quality care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center (CMS Innovation Center) is announcing the second and final round of applications for the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model.
The great promise of technology is to bring information to our fingertips, connect us to one another, improve our productivity, and create a platform for the next generation of innovations.
A major milestone in the effort to improve quality and pay providers for what works
More than 6 million uninsured young adults have gained health insurance coverage since 2010
The Department of Health and Human Services released today new information that shows that millions of seniors and people with disabilities with Medicare continue to save on prescription drugs and see improved benefits in 2015 as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
MACRA provides expanded opportunity for the use of Medicare and private sector claims data to drive higher quality, lower cost care
