CMS has released the IPPS Proposed Rule for FY 2012. Click here for some of the proposed changes (additional/retired measures) to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for FY 2014 and FY 2015. View the entire CMS Proposed Rule, released on April 19, 2011, then scroll to page 343 for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program information.
CMS issues the Final Rule for the first year of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. A comprehensive Fact Sheet is available for viewing, which is very helpful to summarize the entire ruling, found here .
A total of 3,936 QUEST questions were processed during the month of March, 2011. Click here to view the QUEST revisions by Topic and QUEST ID#. To search for the revised question & answer, go to QualityNet QUEST directly, insert the QUEST ID# and perform a search. Keep the 'Topic' description area set at "All Topics".
Hospital Specific 30-Day Mortality & Readmission reports have been made available to hospitals within their My QualityNet Secure File Exchange inbox. Reports were made available on April 21, 2011. These patient-level data reports are provided for all Medicare Fee-for-Service and Veterans Health Administration Medical Center patient stays that occurred between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2010. This data will be included in the July 2011 CMS Hospital Compare Web site refresh.
Now available on QualityNet: CMS 30-Day Risk Standardized Readmission Measures and Mortality Measures timelines, showing "relative dates from pre-implementation to the current reporting periods. These and other updated resources have been made available in the Claims-Based Measures section of QualityNet.
Abstraction Resource Paper Tools effective with April 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 discharges are now available on QualityNet. These inpatient topic-specific (AMI, HF, PN & SCIP) documents are not just for CART users, but rather for all hospitals to use in conducting manual abstraction.
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