Advisory Board July 7, 2022
To help ease the burden on strained health care systems, CMS in April proposed suspending certain quality and safety initiatives and associated penalties for fiscal year (FY) 2023—a move that has garnered both support and backlash from industry experts, Mari Devereaux reports for Modern Healthcare.
Proposed rule would pause safety initiatives and penalties for FY 2023
In April, CMS published a proposed rule that would pause the calculation and reporting of hospitals’ composite Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) 90 data for the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP) in FY 2023.
Under the proposed rule, CMS would not impose financial penalties or weighted payment adjustments related to HACRP or the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program in 2023.
Notably, CMS is still collecting quality...
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