Quality & Patient Safety
CMS May 7 in the Federal Register published the skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2009. In addition to standard annual updates, the rule would implement a significant cut to offset payment increases resulting from a 2006 policy change…
On March 28, information about patients' experience of hospital care from the HCAHPS survey will be shared publicly for the first time on the Hospital Quality Alliance's \(HQA\) Web site, Hospital Compare. Health care consumers highly value information about patients' perceptions of their hospital…
The five-year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\)'s report To Err is Human is fast approaching. There was much media attention when IOM released this report on patient safety in 1999, with most of the headlines focusing on the nearly 98,000 people the report cited as having died…
The Hospital Quality Alliance \(HQA\) has adopted, on a preliminary basis, 10 performance measures of hospital outpatient quality.
Updated on November 17, 2017
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As part of the Administration's efforts to make hospital pricing more transparent, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) today released information on Medicare payments for 30 common procedures aggregated by county. This advisory was prepared to alert you to the CMS release.
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Bob Hyzy, M.D., a board certified pulmonologist at the University ofMichigan Hospitals and Health System in Ann Arbor testifies on behalf of the AHA before the Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education of the House Committee on Appropriations regarding Healthcare-associated infections.