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NewsHHS issues 26 Medicaid quality measures
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has issued 26 Medicaid quality measures, which appeared in the Federal Register today. The department started with almost 1,000 measures and Read more...
Hospital Compare leads hospitals to focus on wrong measures?
With the proliferation of public quality reporting, Health & Human Services' Hospital Compare website is causing hospitals and health systems to hone in on new improvement targets, such as the Read more...
Step-by-step quality improvement measures can ease ACO implementation
Despite the huge undertaking that many skeptics say would be required of accountable care organizations (ACO), leaders at Tuesday's Second National Accountable Care Organization Summit in Washington, Read more...
Inconsistent outcome measures hurt hospital payments
The move towards increased healthcare transparency has pushed hospitals to publically report adverse events. Yet the methods used to measure outcomes isn't standardized, leading to inaccurate quality Read more...
CMS issues value-based purchasing rules for hospitals
CMS has issued the final value-based purchasing rules that will tie acute care Medicare reimbursement to hospitals to quality performance starting October 2012, the agency announced Friday. As Read more...
CMS publishes hospital-acquired infections data despite AHA objections
Despite objections from hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the first round of data on hospital-acquired medical conditions and is expected to post the Read more...
State-run website calls out hospitals with high infection rates
With a few clicks of a mouse, folks in Washington State can find out which hospitals have unusually high infection rates, thanks to a new website launched this week by the state's health department. Read more...
NQF pushes use of electronic data in quality measurement
In an attempt to synchronize how various health plans measure doctor performance--and ultimately broaden the use of electronic means to measure quality--the National Quality Forum on Monday endorsed Read more...
GAO supports doctor profiling system based on Medicare expenses
Measuring physician performance on value and quality is one of the most controversial issues in medicine. It hasn't helped much that physicians have been subjected to a wide variety of inconsistent Read more...
Medicare hands out $12M in hospital quality bonuses
The 230 hospitals that took part in the CMS/HQID value-based purchasing project raised their overall quality by an average of 17.2 percent during the fourth year of the project on delivery of 30 Read more...
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