tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 37

HOSPITALS: Brace Yourself For A 2-Percent Payment Decrease If Your Quality Reporting Isn't Up To Par

CMS hitting hospitals in their pocketbooks for not participating in quality reporting.Many hospitals that reported data on the quality of care they deliver will enjoy a 2-percent annual payment boost as a reward. But for those unlucky 171 hospitals that either didn't participate or failed the submission requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will slap them with a 2-percent reduction in their annual Medicare fee-schedule update for fiscal year (FY) 2007--a startling change from last year's 0.4-percentage-point reduction.Only 28 of the 3,490 eligible acute-care hospitals in the United States chose not to...

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