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The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Implementation Guide. The use of standardized codes will increase transparency, reduce patient errors using a simple and practical approach and promote the safety of patients, hospital employees and visitors.…
Moving forward, we urge the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) to take additional steps to more concretely enhance the alignment of quality measurement reporting and payment efforts.
The AHA supports several aspects of CMS’s proposed framework and measures list for the QRS. However, we are concerned that the measures list seems more like a list of available and potentially implementable measures, rather than a list chosen to advance underlying strategic priorities.
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include checklists and recommended practices designed to help health care providers and the organizations that support them assess and optimize the safety and safe use of electronic health records.
AHA Urges Congress to Support RAC Reforms after Long Delays in Assignment of Hospital Appeals to ALJ
The need for fundamental RAC relief has become even more apparent and urgent by operational changes described in the attached memo from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA).
Delays of at least two years in granting an ALJ hearing for an appealed claim are not only unacceptable, they are a direct violation of Medicare statute that requires ALJs to issue a decision within 90 days of receiving the request for hearing.