CMS Expands Quality InitiativeThe program, which began in 2007, establishes a financial incentive for physicians and other health care practitioners to participate in a voluntary quality reporting program.AnonymousHealth Data Management
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HomeHealthQualityInits/OASIS-C1.html Home Health Quality Initiative. Home Health Quality Initiative. Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements. Home Health Star Ratings. OASIS PBQI / PROCESS MEASURES. The following is a su...
Under the ACA, Verma said, the Medicaid safety net has been stretched to accommodate able-bodied working-age adults who have gained coverage, possibly at the risk of the country’s most vulnerable patients. CMS’ new openness to state waivers for the Medicaid program provides these abl...
The initiative sets a financial incentive for physicians to participate in a voluntary quality reporting program. However, it is noted that health leaders have doubts over how many doctors will sign up for the program. Some providers are doing additional homework before deciding if they want to ...
For CY 2025, CMS is proposing to adjust its ASC conversion factor to $89.379 for ASCs meeting quality reporting requirements and a conversion factor of $87.636 for ASCs failing to meet those requirements. Hospitals failing to meet the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program report...
CMS announced the first mandatory test of shared-risk, outcomes-based payment model and the first initiative to make hospitals financially-responsible for patient recovery, 90-days after a knee or hip replacement surgery; it goes into effect April 2016.
The ACE Model would apply to Part B drugs approved through the AAP Program. In its recent update, CMS notes that “more than 90% of accelerated approvals for Part B drugs over the past five years were for oncology indications,” although this model could also...
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CMS will monitor and evaluate the activities of the program to make sure that they are creating ideal results while improving safety. “Patients and families will benefit immensely from the continuation of the Partnership for Patients’ important work, which was begun in the CMS Innovation Center,...
Governing Body:Adds to governing body CoP to require the governing body to directly consult with the individual responsible for the organized medical staff periodically throughout the year regarding the quality of care provided; for multi-hospital systems using a single governing body, the governing ...