CMS announces increase in hospitals voluntarily reporting quality data
Compliance Monitor, February 25, 2004
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About one out of three U.S. hospitals paid by Medicare and Medicaid are now voluntarily reporting at least one quality measure from a set of 10 "starter set" measures, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced February 20.
According to a CMS press release, the new information demonstrates growing interest in Medicare's effort to promote public reporting of quality measures that can both help hospitals improve their quality of care and allow patients and their families to make more informed decisions about their own care.
As of last week, 1,407 hospitals shared at least one of the clinical quality measures. This is more than three times the number that shared the same data when CMS began publishing the information in October 2003. Nearly 500 hospitals shared quality data in each of the initiative's three clinical categories: heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia.
To read the quality information, click here.
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