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Fighting Health Care Fraud
The Obama Administration has made fighting health care fraud one of our top priorities. In Medicare and Medicaid, these efforts are already paying off. This year, we announced a record recovery of $4.1 billion in taxpayer dollars. Four years ago, that number was only a little more than $1 billion.
Dec 14, 2012
Blog Primary care makes strides in improving quality and costs
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced promising results of the first shared savings performance year for the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative. This model is part of our broader effort at CMS to promote better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
Oct 07, 2015
Blog Reducing Improper Payment: A Collaborative Effort
CMS is dedicated to promoting better care, protecting patient safety, reducing health care costs, and providing people with access to the right care, when and where they need it.
Nov 16, 2015
Blog New CMS Web Tool Will Improve Access to and Transparency of Information on Medicare Enrollment, Utilization, and Expenditures
CMS continues to develop enhanced web-based data analytic and visualization tools, and I’m excited to announce that the most up-to-date Medicare enrollment information is now available to the public through our new CMS Program Statistics website.
Nov 23, 2015
Blog CMS Updates its Quality Strategy to Build a Better, Smarter, and Healthier Health Care Delivery System
At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), we are working with public and private partners to build a health care delivery system that delivers improved care, spends health care dollars more wisely, and makes communities healthier.
Nov 25, 2015
Blog Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs
We are living in a time of unprecedented change for health IT. Initiatives like the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs are at the forefront of hospitals, physicians and nurse practitioners to adopt an electronic medium for patient information.
Dec 10, 2015
Blog CMS Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Strategy II Initiative Second Annual Evaluation Report
Today, we at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are pleased to announce findings from the second annual evaluation report for the Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Strategy II Initiative.
Mar 16, 2016
Blog CMS Finalizes its Quality Measure Development Plan
On December 18, 2015, we posted our draft Quality Measure Development Plan, a strategic framework for clinician quality measurement development to support the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and advanced alternative payment models (APMs).
May 02, 2016
Blog CMS Provides Additional Resources to Improve Care and Prepare for the Quality Payment Program for Clinicians
Last year, an overwhelmingly bipartisan Congressional majority – with the support of the medical community and stakeholders – passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA.
Jun 10, 2016
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