Hospital inpatient quality reporting programs and revisions under PPACA include hospital value-based purchasing program, hospital readmission reduction program and hospital-acquired conditions provision. Impact on physical therapist (PT) including inpatient, outpatient and post-acute care settings have been ...
12,13 MPSMS medical records were obtained from the CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program, which includes a multistage random sample of all-payer patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, major surgical care, and all other conditions. Each hospital ...
A readmission within 30 days of a hospitalization is a commonly used quality measure of hospital care. Readmission (or readmit) rates allow us to understand how inpatient care for particular conditions may contribute to issues with post-discharge, medical stability, and recovery. According to recent...
Methods Data Source We used data from the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) registry and the linked Medicare Part A inpatient fee-for-service claims files. The GWTG-HF is an observational ongoing national voluntary quality improvement program initiated in...
Together, CMS and Bellese achieved the goal of legacy system modernization and positioning the HQR program for its role in the future of digital quality measurement. The HQR ecosystem includes several federal incentive programs including: Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR), Outpatient Quality Repo...
Patient-level Composites to Assess Inpatient Care Quality Room to improve on all-or-none Less than half of PN inpatients receive all care processes. Just over half (57%) receive all HF care processes. 83% receive all AMI care processes Composite measure AMIHFPNE Patient %: Mean % of proces...
To determine if STEEEP mapped measures were supported by federal and non-profit organizations that lead consensus- and evidence-based measure reporting for healthcare quality, each measure was cross-referenced to AHRQ (prevention, inpatient, and patient safety quality categories) quality recommendations,...
The regions and municipalities have a shared responsibility for providing primary healthcare, while the regions are solely responsible for providing inpatient/specialised healthcare [31]. The municipalities and regions are tax-funded through two separate systems and are governed independently of each ...
The HACRP legislation (Affordable Care Act section 3008)8 requires that hospitals in the worst-performing quartile by HAC rate receive a 1% Medicare inpatient payment penalty. However, specific measures, performance determination, auditing, and other details are not described. Given this lack of spec...
Researchers and advocacy groups have raised concerns that hospitals, wary of financial penalties, might deter the readmission of patients requiring inpatient care,2-6 thereby increasing mortality after discharge. However, strategies designed to lower readmissions through improved hospital,7 transitional,8-...