OIG to CMS: Improve collection of End Stage Renal Disease quality-of-care data
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, November 28, 2006
A new OIG report recommends that CMS improve collection of clinical performance measures to address quality of care in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) programs.
The OIG assessed the extent to which data are available to ESRD networks to assist them in identifying ESRD facilities with quality-improvement needs.
The study found that while networks have access to multiple sources of data about quality of care, the networks lack facility-specific, comprehensive, and current clinical performance measures.
In 2000, CMS stated that it was developing a Core Data Set project that would collect facility-specific data on a comprehensive set of clinical performance measures. However, CMS has faced technical and resource challenges and the implementation of the Core Data Set project is not complete.
"Under the current system, networks' abilities to ensure that all patients in all facilities receive quality care may be impaired," according to the OIG report.
To read the complete report "Availability of Quality of Care Data in the Medicare End Stage Renal Disease Program," click here.
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