The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
To provide a historical overview of the participating hospitals, before the first project report, Premier Healthcare Informatics has used data already available for three of the five conditions from October 2002 - September 2003. This historical...
CMS is pursuing a vision to improve the quality of health care by expanding the information available about quality of care and through direct incentives to reward the delivery of superior quality care. Through the Premier Hospital Quality...
These reports evaluate the quality of care provided by SNPs. This strategy relies on a phased approach, beginning with defining and assessing desirable structural characteristics and followed by assessing processes and, eventually, outcomes.
The state profiles are intended to provide an understanding of the environment within which the featured agencies are functioning, including factors which may influence or help shape the implementation of particular practices.
National Health Expenditure Accounts are comprised of the following, National Health Expenditures - Historical and Projected, Age Estimates, State Health Expenditures, Health Care spending by Sponsor, NHEA Related Studies.
OASIS C Based Home Health Agency Patient Outcome, Process and Potentially Avoidable Event Reports This report includes the state mean values for all measures included in the Process and Outcome-Based Quality Improvement and Outcome-Based Quality...
The Characteristics and Perceptions of the Medicare Population Data from the 2010 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey is a series of source books based on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care data file. This source book is...
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations at Section 493.855(a) state The laboratory must ensure that each individual engaged in the examination of gynecologic preparations is enrolled in a proficiency testing (PT) program...
This page presents Public Use Files and other publicly-available data on CMS End-Stage Renal Disease Program. The focus is on the congressionally mandated Program Management and Medical Information System.
Section 1886(h) of the Act, establish a methodology for determining payments to hospitals for the costs of approved graduate medical education (GME) programs.