CMS plans hospital quality improvement program
Case Management Weekly, April 11, 2007
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CMS will launch a dry run in December 2007 for a hospital quality program by publishing details from 4,000 hospitals on how their 30-day heart attack death rates in 2003 compare with the national Medicare death rates, reports the USA Today.
The national Medicare death rates for heart attacks is 17.8% and 11.6% for heart failure.
CMS plans to post the comparison on the Internet for consumers to view.
"The main purpose of all this is to improve quality," Michael Rapp of CMS told USA Today. "If I'm running a hospital and see that I fall in a category that's worse than 98% of hospitals, that's going to grab my attention. I'd look to see if we can improve."
Click here to read the USA Today article.
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