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June 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This issue of Legal Notes explains the Affordable Care Act's provisions to expand CMS' authority to release Medicare claims data to Qualified Entities (QEs) for the purposes of evaluating and publicly reporting the performance of providers and suppliers.
June 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has expanded existing efforts and has authorized new tools for quality measurement and reporting for the Medicare program. This issue of Legal Notes highlights the implications that these new ef ...
April 22, 2011 | Report
Analysis explores implementation of the Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Community groups such as those in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative have been using private medical claims data to measure and publically report on the performance of doctors. But another vast pool of inform ...
February 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief from the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project (CPDP) summarizes three "roadmaps" from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to promote lower-cost, high-quality care in the traditional fee-for-service-based Medicare program.