title: Improving heart failure care: CMS' initiative. Improving heart failure care in outpatient practices.
abstract: This column is the eighth in a series reporting on the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ([CMS], formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration), to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. Previous columns have focused on the hospital-based National Heart Failure project. An outpatient practice-based project, the Heart Failure Practice Improvement Effort (HF PIE), was described in the fourth and sixth columns. This column reports experience from the HF PIE project at the practice level in three states.
authors.affiliation: Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation, Dover, NH 03820, USA. nhpro.Iramunno@sdps.org
authors.forename: Lawrence D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Ramunno
authors.forename: Lisa L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: French
authors.forename: Addie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: Michelle L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Ligor
authors.forename: Edward P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Havranek
authors.forename: Jane P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Diana L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Ordin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*