cleveland.com October 25, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has suspended a slew of regulations to give health care providers flexibility in responding to the pandemic. This included temporarily exempting hospitals and practitioners from reporting a variety of quality measures: measures like rates of a hospital’s readmissions after release; the rate at which providers take certain preventive measures; and how patients rate their satisfaction.
Hospitals and physicians applauded the opportunity to redirect time and resources toward front-line patient care and away from government-mandated reporting.
We now have to ask the question: If all of these burdens can be lifted for a lengthy emergency, how necessary or...
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