ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2007 Issue 8
INDUSTRY NOTES ~ CMS Will Be Reporting On Your Quality To Patients
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Article Overview
This industry note covers two related quality-reporting developments: a CMS project that combines Medicare and other payer data to create practice performance reports for beneficiaries, and an NCQA update to quality measures, guidelines, and technical specifications. It is relevant to physicians, practice managers, quality improvement staff, and coding/compliance professionals who track reporting requirements and measure specifications. The article also notes a public comment opportunity on proposed standards.
Why This Topic Matters
The article helps readers understand emerging quality-reporting efforts that may affect how practices are evaluated, compared, and presented to patients. It is useful for organizations monitoring quality metrics, data collection approaches, and national standards from CMS and NCQA.
What You Will Learn
- What CMS is doing to support patient-facing quality reporting
- How regional collaboratives are used in the reporting initiative
- What NCQA updated in its quality-measure framework
- How EMRs and episode-grouping software are considered in data collection standards
- Where to submit comments on proposed measures
Who Should Read This
- Physicians
- Practice managers
- Quality improvement staff
- Medical coders
- Compliance professionals
- Healthcare administrators
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