Fierce Health Payers August 30, 2019
The Indian Health Service (IHS) has major underlying problems such as a lack of clear structure and roles that could hinder the troubled agency’s efforts to fix rampant quality issues, a federal watchdog said.
On Thursday, Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General issued a report based on in-depth interviews with agency officials and HHS officials on quality efforts at IHS.
In the wake of the steady stream of quality problems, IHS introduced the Quality Framework in November 2016. The agency this year established an Office of Quality and released a strategic plan for 2019-2023.
But any hopes of addressing the systemic problems at the agency’s 24 hospitals and related facilities will be dashed if IHS doesn’t take...
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