tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 37

Hospitals: New Standardized Quality Measures On The Way For Hospitals

Technical manual should reduce reporting burdens, McClellan says.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations took another step Sept. 15 to streamline hospitals'  reporting responsibilities - and to help patients make "apples-to-apples comparisons" between facilities.The organizations have issued a technical manual, which is a single comprehensive set of quality measures that all stakeholders can use. It provides common definitions for each of the measures that are being collected and reported. Beginning with discharges in January 2005, the common definitions will be used for both the national voluntary hospital...

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