tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 29

INDUSTRY NOTES: Get Ready For More Quality Scrutiny

Plus: CMS thinks e-prescribing is the answer to a dangerous problem.Two major quality watchdog organizations are teaming up to make their quality information available to patients on the Internet.The Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) have created a new national Quality Alliance Steering Committee, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced on July 21. The new steering committee will "work closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)" and AHRQ to expand more than six ongoing pilot projects that are collecting and reporting physician-quality data across different care...

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