Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inaccuracies in the surgical site infection measure scores. The revised reports also include updated…
Hospitals are encouraged to review their hospital-specific reports for the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program and submit any corrections before the 30-day review and correction period ends Aug. 14. The reports include a summary of the hospital’s results on the program’s quality measures…
Hospitals with structural characteristics reflecting volume, accreditations and advanced services tend to perform better than others on publicly reported quality measures but are penalized significantly in the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, according to a study published this week…
On March 31, information on Medicare hospital-acquired conditions \(HACs\) will be publicly available for the first time. Unlike the display of other Hospital Compare measures, the data will be made available as an electronic file showing raw data and the rates for eight HACs.