tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 15

Hospitals: Feds Want To Increase Heart Transplant Oversight

OIG calls for an overhaul of centers' centrification process.Heads up, heart transplant centers.      Changes in the way the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deals with you may be in the works -- and may be long overdue. If the HHS Office of Inspector General gets its way, effective immediately, CMS will be keeping closer tabs on centers' performance criteria for volume and survival rates. Medicare-approved heart transplant centers have not had performance or recertification criteria revamped since 1987. And in a final inspection report of 90 centers, the OIG pointed out...

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