Government
Hospitals ready to report quality data
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted June 7, 2004
About 90% of the nation's hospitals have signed up with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to report quality data.
In May, CMS reported 3,449 of the 3,900 eligible hospitals had registered to publicly report quality data, up from 2,727 in February. About a third of the registered hospitals are reporting at least one measure on all three clinical conditions covered by the initiative: heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. Some 227 hospitals are reporting results for all 10 measures adopted for the initiative.
Under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, hospitals that do not report quality data beginning July 1 will receive a 0.4 percentage point reduction in Medicare pay in fiscal 2005.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/06/07/gvbf0607.htm.