CMS Hospital Proposal: Pay-For-Reporting To Become Pay-For-Performance
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Awarding Medicare reimbursements based on a hospital's achievement of certain quality measures will become a reality late next year under CMS' Jan. 7 value-based purchasing proposed rule.
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