Rubrum Advising Rubrum Advising Welcomes CMS veteran Carol Blackford as Principal and Vice President, Payment & Health Care Delivery Policy
Rubrum Advising | 08.25.2026
Carol Blackford joins Rubrum Advising
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Rubrum Advising Welcomes Former CMS Quality, Safety & Oversight Group Director David Wright
Rubrum Advising | 07.29.2026
Wright brings three decades of health and safety oversight experience to Rubrum’s deep bench of former senior CMS and FDA officials, practicing clinicians, and market access experts.
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Rubrum Solutions Launches with Novel AI Platform for Prior Authorization, Benefits Verification, Clinical and Real-World Evidence
Rubrum Advising | 04.07.2026
The platform organizes structured and unstructured health data at the moment of retrieval, accelerating adoption so people can access innovative care sooner.
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ASMM Brief Series
Rubrum Advising | 04.01.2026
The Alliance for Screening Measurement Modernization (ASMM) was convened to close the gap between rapidly evolving screening technologies—which may offer greater accuracy or more patient-centered approaches—and the slow adoption of these technologies into the quality measures used to assess physician, clinic, and health plan performance. This cross-sector initiative operates through two separate but coordinated councils: a Quality Council comprised of representatives from guideline setting organizations, clinicians, measure developers and stewards, and other nonprofit stakeholders, and an Industry Council comprised of diagnostic innovators and a patient advocacy organization. The ASMM met from June through December 2025 to develop the ASMM series of briefs and design a practical framework for more timely measure modernization.
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Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program
Rubrum Advising | 01.26.2026
Rubrum Advising appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2027 proposed policy and technical changes to the Medicare Advantage (MA) Program and accompanying Request for Information (RFI). Rubrum Advising (“Rubrum”), founded by Lee Fleisher, MD, former CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, advises clients on matters pertaining to the adoption, diffusion, and reimbursement of innovative solutions and products to improve patient outcomes and reduce total costs of healthcare within the context of regulation, safety, quality, and clinical standards.
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RAPIDS Network Recommendations for Quality Measure Development and Revision
Rubrum Advising | 12.08.2025
The RAPIDS Network Quality Measures Working Group convened to recommend new quality measures that capture previous gaps in antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention & control data collection and measurement.
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RAPIDS Network Recommendations for Quality Measure Prioritization
Rubrum Advising | 12.08.2025
Among the measures that were recommended for revision, the group identified those in the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program that may result in inappropriate penalization and should therefore be temporarily removed while undergoing revision or replacement, with continued inclusion in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program.
