Statement from Dr. Donald W. Fisher, Ph.D., CAE on Dr. Donald Berwick's Departure as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
... facilities recognized for providing high-quality care. The researchers used data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public reporting ...
... when payments and best health care practices are aligned. To this end, payers such as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and private insurers should ...
... that such quality improvement programs are all the more important in light of a recent decision by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to begin denying payments ...
... . Expensive chemotherapies will place a strain on the financial resources of the Medicare program. [Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services] needs to anticipate ...
... readmission, and prevention and care of venous thromboembolism. Also, starting Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will deny payment for eight ...
... ) have been shown to perform better in the heart attack core measures established by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as compared to non ...
... .S. National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR). The registry—which was formed at the request of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)—has found that PET prompted ...
... .S. Department of Health and Human Services, especially the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patient ...
... suggest the use of "evidence-based reimbursement incentives" rather than "pay-for-performance." "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for example, might set ...
... for payment to be approved. The study also included data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on drug utilization by Medicaid programs, including all outpatient prescriptions for which Medicaid ...
... Medicare beneficiary. The designation of mild, moderate and severe heart failure is from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hierarchical Condition Categories ...
... . At that time, NOPR researchers felt that the significance of the evidence was such that they formally asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the current ...
... .S. gross domestic product in 2006, costing $2.1 trillion, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
... independently and objectively analyzed nearly 41 million patient records from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for fiscal years 2005 ...
