Provide comments on potential hospital quality measures
HIM Connection, August 18, 2009
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CMS is accepting comments through August 25 on two cardiac outcomes measures that it may implement for use in the hospital inpatient quality pay-for-reporting program. Providers may also comment on four hospital outpatient quality reporting measures pertaining to a specific population of patients with cardiovascular conditions or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as well as those who have undergone cataract surgery.
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