Science news articles about 'centers for medicare and medicaid services cms'

... core measures established by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as compared to non-accredited ... 2003 when the first hospital chest pain center was accredited. Now 364 accredited chest ...

... -quality care. The researchers used data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public reporting Web site, Hospital Compare, to evaluate hospital performance. Since 2004, ...

... 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 changes in care decisions in 36.5 ...

... that the significance of the evidence was such that they formally asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the current National Coverage Determination on oncologic use ...

... a new Congressional mandate changing hospital reimbursement made by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could inadvertently reverse these positive steps, according to Beth Israel ...

... differences in the types of patients across hospitals and is currently being used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to profile hospital performance, decreased from 18.8 percent ...

... wrote a joint letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to formally request coverage ... during the initial treatment evaluation. Currently, CMS covers only one FDG-PET study during ...