Sharon Parsley (sharonparsley@q-a-g.com) is President & Managing Director of Quest Advisory Group, LLC, in Ocala, FL.
As those of you in the acute care hospital arena may know, CMS continues to refine the measures associated with its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. A quick overview of the three areas of most significant change impacting the calendar year 2018 reporting period follows.
Hybrid hospital-wide 30-day readmission
For the measurement period January 1, 2018 through June 30, 2018, a voluntary measure of Hybrid Hospital-Wide 30-Day Readmission will be collected during a submission period running from September 1, 2018 through November 30, 2018. Participating hospitals will report on not less than 50% of discharged, age-qualified, Medicare fee-for-service patients. At the current time, the measure will not affect payments, and no public reporting is planned.
