tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 3

INDUSTRY NOTES ~ Hospitals' Care-Quality Improvements Due To QIOs, CMS Says

Plus: Getting your 2007 payments should be smooth sailing. Care quality improved by 7.8 percent in hospitals, compared to 3.2 percent in ambulatory care settings and only 1 percent in nursing homes and home health care, according to HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The reason behind the improvement in hospital care is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) recent employment of Quality Improvement Organizations, AHRQ analysts say. AHRQ recently released two annual reports on health care quality and disparities: the 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report."Quality...

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