Medscape August 9, 2022
A hospital quality and safety data reporting requirement that the government had proposed to place on hold for Fiscal Year 2023 — owing to the confounding effects of the COVID pandemic on hospital performance and data-gathering — was reinstated last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The preliminary Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, used for making annual adjustments to hospital payments and policies under Medicare and released for public comment in April, included a proposal to withhold publication of the 10-item Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite measure, also known as PSI-90. The government proposed to collect the data but not to publicly release it on Care Compare, the website that compiles and publishes quality data...
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