Hospital Peer Review – August 1, 2015
August 1, 2015
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Breaking News: Update on Two-Midnight Rule
CMS released proposed updates to the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System that will impact the existing Two-Midnight Rule beginning January 2016.
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Root cause analysis is not enough
The NPSF released a document in June designed to explain the concept of RCA2 (RCA Squared).
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Are You Worrying About Med Rec?
Patient safety and quality issues seem to have years when they are popular and then years when they fall out of favor, when other items get all the press.
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Questions to ask Patients About Medication History
Here are 12 great questions to get you started.
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CMS certifies registry as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry
CMS has certified FORCE-TJR, the national registry for total hip and knee joint replacement patients and their surgical outcomes, as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry. This allows members to use their data for submission to the Physician Quality Reporting System, avoiding a 2% payment adjustment for failing to do so. The Medical Group Management Association has estimated that up to 40% of providers with Medicare patients will be docked pay for not submitting this data.
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FORCE-TJR chooses 16 for PQRS
Patricia Franklin, MD, FACS, the registrar of FORCE-TJR, shared the 16 new measures it uses for the Physician Quality Reporting System. Data on these will be forwarded to the government, and will also be crunched into the usual bits for benchmarking and comparison amongst the other FORCE members.
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GI QI success expands to other specialties
A quality bundle created for colorectal surgical patients has proved so successful that it is being expanded to other units at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in the hopes that the financial and clinical benefits can spread to other specialties.