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Title: Guide to Cms Compliance (Trends) (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Author : Ruth M. Elzer
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,Industries & Professions,
Pages : * pages
Size : 57 KB

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Many hospitals are proud of their improvement in quality, as indicated by core measures or other quality metrics. However, potential quality problems still exist. In recent years, media coverage of "never events" (or harmful medical incidents) and the availability of such information on the Internet have made patients and families better informed and more keenly focused on the quality of clinical care. When patients and families complain about nursing care, medication errors, poor infection prevention, or patient rights violations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and state agencies are expected to investigate the validity of those complaints. An increased number of hospitals have recently received CMS surveys directly related to complaints from patients and families. These complaint investigations are likely to be more frequent in 2010. When surveyors can substantiate the complaints, on the basis of detailed information provided by families, condition- and standard-level violations rise, bringing more hospitals close to CMS's Immediate Jeopardy and even Medicare termination. Hospital executives should not assume that prior survey achievement will guarantee future success. The government is investing in discovering noncompliance and thus expects justification for this focus. To keep up with the demand for compliance surveys and to address governmental concerns about healthcare quality, CMS (2010) is enlarging its compliance survey staff in Fiscal Year 2010. This move likely forecasts a rise in the number of surveys this year.