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Senate bill calls for QIO makeover
Quality Improvement Monitor, August 10, 2007
A bill before the Senate calls for a massive makeover of the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) that Congress created 25 years ago to improve services for Medicare beneficiaries, according to Healthcare IT News.
"It's an oxymoron to have a quality improvement program that turns out to be poor quality," Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) co-sponsor of the bill, told Healthcare IT News. "It needs a major overhaul. This program has evolved to have many different functions. Some of them are at cross-purposes, and the QIOs aren't performing any of the functions well."
The bill, co-sponsored by Senator Max Baucus, (D-MT), calls on QIOs to focus on technical assistance for quality improvement and performance measurement, the News said. It would also move other QIO responsibilities, including complaint investigations, to other entities.
"We agree that it is time to modernize the nation's QIO program but it appears that we disagree on how that should look," Marc Bennett," president of The American Health Quality Association, which represents the QIOs," told the publication. "We are still reviewing the Grassley/Baucus proposal to understand their strategy more fully."
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