Quality and Safety

One in three deaths are caused by heart attacks and strokes, resulting in over $300 billion in healthcare costs each year.

Teaching hospitals had slightly lower star ratings than non-teaching hospitals, while critical access hospitals showed high marks.

Official says one of the best ways physicians can prepare for MACRA is to sift through the list of 90 activities laid out in the rule.

National guidelines call for doctors to provide full disclosure about adverse events, and studies have shown that those discussions benefit patients. But new research finds that the act of disclosure, combined with stress from the procedure gone wrong, can be an anxious experience for some doctors.

Rates of potentially preventable readmissions declined across all conditions between 2010 and 2014, according to a MedPAC analysis of Medicare claims data.

A recent study examined this pattern and found the prescriptions are used and renewed more often than you might imagine.

The hospital groups urge CMS to address what they say are several significant underlying methodological problems with the program.

Between 1997 and 2011, there was a nearly 50 percent reduction in emergency department mortality rates for adults in the United States, according to a new study published by Health Affairs.

Proposal would eliminate any potential financial pressure clinicians may feel to over-prescribe pain medications, especially opioids.

American Hospital Association-backed report says ignoring socioeconomic differences may create the appearance of quality issues where there are none.