Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools outperformed most urban districts across the country on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, with the nation’s highest score in eighth grade math. But ...

In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its proposed payment rules for general acute care ...

In late May, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its latest performance report for the nation’s 55 Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), the nonprofits responsible for ...

CMS has released a final rule that allows for the use of standardized extracts of Medicare claims data for qualified entities to measure healthcare providers’ and suppliers’ performance. Under the new ...

Medicare’s value-based programs are penalizing inpatient hospitals for community-level health equity factors that impact outcomes but are largely out of hospitals’ control, according to a recent ...

As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools celebrates significant gains in student achievement, many educators who helped make those results possible say they — and their pocketbooks — are stretched thinner ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule Monday for the release and use of Medicare claims data to qualified entities to measure the performance of Medicare providers under the ...