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Hospitals : Public ReportingQuality health care for Medicare beneficiaries is a high priority for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In November 2001, HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced the Quality Initiative, his commitment to assure quality health care for all Americans through published consumer information coupled with health care quality improvement support through Medicare's Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs). The Hospital Quality Initiative uses a variety of tools to stimulate and support a significant improvement in the quality of hospital care. The initiative aims to refine and standardize hospital data transmission and performance measures in order to construct one robust, prioritized and standard quality measure set for hospitals. The goal is for all private and public purchasers, oversight and accrediting entities, and payers and providers of hospital care to use these same measures in their national public reporting activities. Quality improvement support, collaborations, standardization and assuring compliance with CMS conditions of participation are important additional tools in achieving this objective. As part of the Hospital Quality Initiative, CMS sponsors several projects that include public reporting of hospital data. View all of projects in the CMS Hospital Quality Initiative. Two of these initiatives are open to all hospitals for participation: the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), formerly the National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative (NVHRI), and the Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update (APU) Initiative. Click here to view a recorded WebEx that provides an overview of the public reporting process and the resources available on Qualitynet.org. Click here to view a recorded WebEx that provides clarification on common abstraction and validation questions and gives updates on several abstraction elements. Public reporting information is available in NMMRA's Focus on Patient Safety newsletters. For additional information, see also: Contact Us |