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Six organizations representing Missouri health care providers are urging their members to adopt a core set of actions to reduce variation in opioid prescribing practices. The 10 recommended strategies can be adopted as a stand-alone policy or in addition to existing strategies. “Missouri…
2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center (CAMC) Health System began its Baldrige journey 15 years ago, because it “had an absolute obligation to our community to be the best we could possibly be,” says CAMC President and CEO David Ramsey…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a notice with comment period that discusses the basis for cutting hospitals’ inpatient payments by 0.2 percent in conjunction with its “two-midnight policy.” The notice comes in response to the court’s ruling…
The Department of Veterans Affairs today issued an interim final rule revising medical regulations for the Veterans Choice Program that will increase the number of veterans who are eligible for the program. The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 requires the VA to…
The Measure Applications Partnership, which must review most Medicare quality and performance measures before formal rulemaking, has published a list of about 130 measures under consideration for use in hospital and other Medicare public reporting and payment programs, including about 60…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking comment on its proposed measure of 30-day, all-cause unplanned readmission following psychiatric hospitalization in an inpatient psychiatric facility. The measure is being developed under the IPF Outcome and Process Measure Development and…
Rural health care providers should be integrated into Medicare’s public reporting and value-based payment programs, recommends a recent report from the National Quality Forum. The report, developed with the input of NQF’s Rural Health Committee, recommends that participation be…
“This is an exciting time,” writes AHA Chairman Jonathan Perlin, M.D., in a commentary today in Modern Healthcare, citing recent gains in life expectancy.
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will review and answer questions about the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model during a 60-minute webinar at 2 p.m. ET on Nov. 30. Finalized Nov. 16, the new payment model will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee…
The AAMI Foundation has released a free compendium designed to help hospitals and health care organizations meet The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal on clinical alarms. The Joint Commission will begin documenting noncompliance with clinical alarm management in 2016. The…