Nursing home operators can now access a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services webpage dedicated to the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement initiative. The official QAPI regulations are ...

With a QAPI regulation in process and the subsequent date for submission of a facility QAPI plan to CMS a year after promulgation of the regulation pending, preparing for Quality Assurance and ...

Next year is bringing many changes to the regulatory landscape for skilled nursing. With new payment rules, coding changes ...

CMS proposes to require OPOs to establish a QAPI program to monitor and evaluate performance of all donation services, including services provided under contract or arrangement. As part of the QAPI ...

An ASC administrator is integral to a quality assurance performance improvement program, according to a Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III blog. Pinnacle III shared five key ways ASC administrators ...

plant social worker with Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Center and Advanced Liver Disease in Phoenix. He is a member of NN&I’s Editorial Advisory Board. In 1984, The National Organ Transplant Act ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Sandra Jones, FHFMA, LHRM, CASC, owner, Ambulatory Strategies, Inc., and an executive vice president with ASD Management ...

CMS released a memo explaining the benefits hospitals can gain from using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Common Formats to track and report adverse events. Hospitals are required to ...