The Bleeding Edge Vol 25 No. 12
By Stephen W. Earnhart
CMS is now proposing to implement a quality reporting system under which data collection would begin in 2012. For the first two years, ASCs would not be financially penalized for failure to report quality information. However, beginning in 2014, CMS would begin reducing Medicare payments to ASCs that fail to report data on specified quality measures.
CMS proposes eight measures for the initial reporting period:
- Patient Burn
- Patient Fall in the ASC
- Wrong Site, Wrong Side, Wrong Patient, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Implant
- Hospital Transfer/Admission
- Prophylactic IV Antibiotic Timing
- Appropriate Surgical Site Hair Removal
- Selection of Prophylactic Antibiotic (first or second generation cephalosporin)
- Surgical Site Infection Rate
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