Hospitals: IS MANDATORY QUALITY REPORTING ON THE HORIZON FOR HOSPITALS?
CMS chief Tom Scully isn't happy about early results on voluntary reporting.
Last December's agreement by the hospital industry to begin voluntary reporting of quality data bore its first tangible fruit Oct. 9, when industry and government officials and other stakeholders unveiled a Web site featuring 10 quality measures on treatment of heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia.
But in a statement on the site, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Tom Scully said he was "extremely disappointed" in the level of hospital participation. He warned that "unless participation increases significantly and soon, we will have to...
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