REGULATORY REVIEW: CMS Makes Changes to its Quality Reporting Program

Regulatory Review

CMS Makes Changes to its Quality Reporting Program

What this means for your ASC

Regulatory Review

ASCs do not need to put QDCs on their FFS Medicare claims for 2019.

Regulatory Review

CMS Makes Changes to its Quality Reporting Program

What this means for your ASC

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to Medicare’s ASC Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program for 2019 and beyond, including the suspension of four outcomes measures that have been part of the ASCQR Program since its inception in 2012. Facilities that have been collecting and reporting data on Medicare claims forms are no longer required to do so for 2019. Even though facilities no longer have to report on patient burns (ASC-1), falls (ASC-2), wrong events (ASC-3) or hospital transfers (ASC-4) on feefor- service (FFS) Medicare claims, it is a good idea to continue collecting this data, as the measures have been suspended only instead of removed and the information can be useful for benchmarking and quality assessment and performance improvement.

 


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