Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Jan. 4 the deadline for hospitals and their vendors to voluntarily submit data for the hybrid hospital-wide readmissions measure to the inpatient quality reporting program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday posted a summary of validation survey results for hospitals in fiscal years 2014-2016, and survey reports for hospitals with a compliance deficiency in the past six months.
Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals can now submit electronic clinical quality measure data for the calendar year 2018 reporting period for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Promoting Interoperability Program.
Beginning in January, Medicare will pay for certain care management home visits under the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model.
The Joint Commission last week recognized four hospitals and health systems as a 2018 Pioneers in Quality Expert Contributor for their efforts to advance the evolution and use of electronic clinical quality measures.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule updating Medicare’s hospice payment rates, wage index and quality reporting requirements for fiscal year 2019.
The AHA today submitted comments on the long-term care hospital payment and quality reporting provisions included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule for the hospital inpatient and LTCH prospective payment system for fiscal year 2019.
AHA today voiced support for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposals to remove certain quality measures from the inpatient psychiatric facility quality reporting program in fiscal year 2019.
The AHA today submitted comments on the Centers for Medicare…
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2019.
- Medicare
- Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
- Medicare DSH
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
- Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Interoperability
- Medicare Area Wage Index (AWI)
- Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- Value-based payment
- Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
- Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
- Quality & Patient Safety
- Quality Measures