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In its final rule for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System for calendar year 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took the first steps linking payment for outpatient services to the quality of care received by expanding the Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program and requiring hospitals to report on outpatient quality measures for the first time.

Outpatient payments to be linked to quality reporting