Accountable Care
Leapfrog Group says 30 percent of hospitals fully meet the four criteria for bar code medication administration, though 74 percent meet the group's two CPOE criteria.
The agency scored higher on six of nine patient safety indicators, but still needs to work on behavioral health and patient experience, a JAMA Internal Medicine report finds.
The federal government has proposed requiring that accreditors release reports on the problems they find during hospital inspections. Right now, the reports are secret.
CMS initiative aims to boost outcomes, reduce cost and find innovative ways to deliver care to underserved populations.
Agency launches new website that allows veterans to find and compare care quality at clinics in the area, while viewing real-time data on wait times.
CMS is also testing new Person Centered Community Care, or P3C, model for dually-eligible individuals who are at least 21 and have disabilities that impair their mobility, requiring nursing home care.
Agency predicts the new opportunities will mean 25 percent of clinicians in QPP will be a part of the APMs.
With Tom Price leading HHS and Seema Verma at the CMS helm, hospitals should brace for value-based pullback, problems accessing capital, Paul Keckley says.
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and consultant Paul Keckley both think Trump's desire to run the country as a businessman means programs that test new payment models will remain.
Re-evaluation of CMMI possible, along with other small changes, but law is largely safe, experts say.