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How IPPS Proposed Rules Would Affect Quality Measures
The latest proposed rules for how federal payers would reimburse hospitals in years to come call for important changes in the way quality is measured. But you wouldn't know it unless you dug through the 1,313-page proposal for Inpatient Prospective Payment System rules.
I don't expect you to scour the whole thing.
But I browsed through parts of it and found that not only does the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services intend to increase the types of hospital performance that influence hospital payments, but these new performance measures also would be publicly reported on Hospital Compare someday soon.
Some other elements in the mix should prompt quality leaders to refocus their resources. I'll list five that merit particular attention.
- Primary Care Docs Average More Hospital Revenue Than Specialists
- 69% of Employers Plan to Offer Healthcare Coverage After 2014
- How Chargemaster Data May Affect Hospital Revenue
- Building a Better Healthcare Board
- Insurer's App Aims to Lower Healthcare Costs, Securely
- ED Physicians Key to Half of Hospital Admissions
- Q&A: Catholic Health Initiatives' New Senior VP for Capital Finance
- Hospital Pricing Irks Nurses; More Jobs, Less Pay
- Don't Let Nurses Sink Your Bottom Line
- House Lawmakers Grill CMS Over Health Exchange Navigators
Comments are moderated. Please be patient.
Dan Ross (5/4/2012 at 7:34 AM)
I'm somewhat lost on the pre-term birth category? Is CMS collecting Medicade data?