The Biden administration is pushing to resolve big gaps in the quality and accuracy of data on health equity as it installs new requirements for payers and providers. The Centers for Medicare & ...

Federal officials are considering significantly expanding how much information nursing homes must record in the Minimum Data Set, potentially adding reporting for patients outside of Medicare to ...

CMS announced on Thursday in a blog post it will wait to issue a final rule until later this year on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which requires pharmaceutical, medical device or other supply ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued an updated registration link for its webinar April 16 at 3 p.m. ET on ...

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they ...

Presenters from CMS and the CDC explored the importance of standardizing health equity data collection at the 2024 CMS Health Equity Conference. Meagan Khau, MHA, director of the Data Analytics & ...

Five hours and eight minutes. That’s the amount of a hospital infection preventionist’s time that’s eaten up by meeting CMS reporting requirements, according to new research. Feeling burdened by the ...

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A warning letter sent late last week by federal regulators about nursing home debt collection practices was overblown and obscured another significant problem, operations experts said over the weekend ...