Quality & Regulatory

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign published new pediatric guidelines in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine earlier this month. Sepsis...Read More »

Healthcare systems are beginning to make notable investments in community programs to address social determinants of health (SDOH), according to a...Read More »

Last week, CMS released the final 2018 performance data for the Quality Payment Program (QPP). These final QPP performance results show...Read More »

The federal government has extended the comment period for the proposed rule...Read More »

Hospitals who serve disadvantaged patients in vulnerable communities may be unfairly penalized by the CMS rating system, according to an...Read More »

Safety-net hospitals may not have adequate resources to comply with federal and state sepsis quality improvement standards required of acute care...Read More »

CMS reported that it plans to begin audits that would include chart reviews for validity of diagnoses in 2020 after a recent study by the Office...Read More »

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and other hospital groups filed a lawsuit December 4 challenging CMS’ hospital price transparency final...Read More »

Carolinas Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, received $431,757 in Medicare overpayments for incorrectly billed inpatient and outpatient...Read More »