Articles Tagged With: CMS
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CMS Issues Temporary Halt to Short Stay Reviews
Faced with concerns from providers and apparently inconsistent education being provided by the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations, CMS temporarily suspended reviews of short hospital stays and ordered the QIOs to re-review every denial issued since they took over the reviews.
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CMS Releases ASC Quality Data
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released comprehensive ASC quality data reports from its Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.
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CMS Releases Guide to Preventing Readmissions Among Diverse Beneficiaries
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health has released a new Guide to Preventing Readmissions among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries.
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CMS Proposes Access to information for Quality, Patient Care Improvement
CMS has proposed rules that will expand access to analyses and data that will help providers, employers, and others make more informed decisions about care delivery.
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Regulators: CMS issues infection control survey, OSHA drafts ID reg
Are you ready for a CMS unannounced visit using its new infection control survey? -
Report documents importance of parents to children's health coverage
The George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services and First Focus released a report demonstrating that children benefit greatly when their parents have health care coverage. -
Trauma Reports for July/August 2007
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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News Briefs
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia will get more than $547 million in grants over five years to build Medicaid long-term care programs that will help keep people at home and out of institutions.