GAO recommends CMS ensure complete hospital quality data
Case Management Weekly, March 8, 2006
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CMS should take steps to improve its processes for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of hospital quality data linked to Medicare payments, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a recent report. CMS has processes for ensuring the accuracy of quality data submitted by hospitals for the Annual Payment Update program, "but has no ongoing process for assessing the completeness of those data," according to the GAO report, Hospital Quality Data: CMS Needs More Rigorous Methods to Ensure Reliability of Publicly Released Data. CMS did not assess the extent to which all hospitals submitted data on all eligible patients, GAO said.
Source: Bureau of National Affairs
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