Hospital Peer Review – October 1, 2015
October 1, 2015
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‘Immediate jeopardy’ can happen to any hospital
It can happen to those top-notch facilities, say the experts. It is possible for a serious deficiency to slip through the cracks and go unnoticed until a CMS surveyor makes a fateful note in the records.
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Immediate jeopardy is fast track to disaster
Immediate jeopardy is the most severe finding by a CMS surveyor, after the “standard” and “condition” levels.
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Vigilance can help avoid immediate jeopardy
Because CMS surveyors are given latitude in how to assess deficiencies, immediate jeopardy is always a risk. But there are ways to reduce your chances of receiving the worst citation.
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New technology poses credentialing challenge
Patients will suffer the consequences, experts say, and hospital quality leaders will be blamed for not keeping up with the times.
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Hospital settles lawsuit after credentialing surgeon on robot
The first lawsuit to be decided involving the da Vinci surgical robot suggests that hospitals are going to be held responsible if they do not properly credential physicians on emerging technology. The company making the device may be in the clear.
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Videotape review reveals flaws in tech credentialing
A recent study of surgeons credentialed to perform bariatric surgery suggests that current hospital methods for assessing competence in new and complex procedures are inadequate.
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Arkansas doctors, hospitals fight over peer review law
Three Arkansas hospitals are continuing their fight against a 2013 law that governs hospital peer reviews, taking the case to the state supreme court. In part, the law requires that hospitals notify physicians that they are under review and allows them to have a lawyer.
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Quality data may be skewed by other hospital readmissions
Readmission rates may not be an accurate measure of hospital quality if the analysis does not factor in the readmissions from other hospitals, researchers suggest in a new study.
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Primary care doctors troubled by hospital quality metrics
Half of the nation’s primary care physicians view the increased use of quality-of-care metrics and financial penalties for unnecessary hospitalizations as potentially troubling for patient care, according to a new survey from The Commonwealth Fund and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Patient satisfaction surveys seriously flawed, report says
The patient satisfaction surveys used by CMS to assess hospitals are not valid, according to a new report by the Hastings Center, the nonpartisan research center on bioethics.
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251 hospitals get 5 stars for patient satisfaction
CMS announced the new rating system as part of an effort to standardize rating systems across its website. Hospitals could preview the ratings in 2014, but the list was finalized this year.