tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 41

HOSPITALS: Facility Incentive Pay May Tie Into Infection Protection

Hospitals that want SCIP money must agree to 20 measures.In September, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Hospital Quality Alliance released new quality information on the Hospital Compare Web site about increases in hospital reporting and new quality measures.In the update, CMS added two new surgical infection prevention measures and a new pneumonia measure. These additions bring the total number of measures to 20, "including the 10 clinical measures that short-term acute-care hospitals must agree to report publicly in order to receive the incentive payments," the agency says.The Surgical Care Improvement Project...

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