Quality & Patient Safety
As hospitals and health systems continue to look for ways to advance quality of care while lowering costs, the AHA has taken a leadership role in supplying information to hospitals to help them further improve the work they do.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is granting exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to hospitals and other health care facilities in certain counties affected by the wildfires in Northern California. Providers outside of those鈥
The MACRA Physician Quality Payment Program Final Rule for CY 2018 continues a flexible approach to the MACRA's physician quality payment program urged by hospitals, health systems, and the more than 500,000 employed and contracted physicians with whom they partner to deliver care.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today announced a 鈥淢eaningful Measures鈥 initiative to reduce the burden of quality reporting on health care providers. 鈥淭he ultimate goal of Meaningful Measures is to direct efforts on high-priority areas,鈥 Verma said,鈥
As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subset of the population referred to as high-need, high-cost patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced it will not update its overall hospital quality star ratings on Hospital Compare in October. 鈥淐MS decided not to proceed with the October update to continue its examination of potential changes to the Star Rating methodology based on鈥