CMS Announces New Records System for Quality Reporting

Feb 10th, 2013 | By admin | Category: Current Feature

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will develop a new records system that will facilitate quality reporting for long term hospital care, according to Wednesday’s Federal Register.

Specific quality metrics quantifying the care quality provided to patients staying in long term care hospitals will be compiled and eventually published on the Internet.

According to the notice, the first measure collected is the “The Percent of Patient Residents with Pressure Ulcers That are New or Worsened.” Metrics surrounding catheter-associated urinary tract infections and central line-associated blood stream infections will also be collected.

Starting in fiscal year 2014, all three measures will be compiled by CMS.

The records system will collect data from long term care patients and Medicare beneficiaries, including personally identifiable information, which includes national provider identifiers, demographic data and Social Security numbers in specific cases.

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