Medicare: Improving Quality of Care Assessment and Assurance : Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, House of RepresentativesThe Office, 1988 - 176 pages |
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... reviewed quality assurance research and evaluation activities within the Department of Health and Human Services and assessed the need for longer term changes . We make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services ...
... reviewed quality assurance research and evaluation activities within the Department of Health and Human Services and assessed the need for longer term changes . We make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services ...
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... Review Methods Has Not Been Evaluated Quality - Related Review Activities Are Poorly Coordinated The effectiveness of the medical review activities of carriers , inter- mediaries , and PROS in identifying quality problems or positively ...
... Review Methods Has Not Been Evaluated Quality - Related Review Activities Are Poorly Coordinated The effectiveness of the medical review activities of carriers , inter- mediaries , and PROS in identifying quality problems or positively ...
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... activities of each contract review system , nor the HCFA systems for validating the accuracy of medical reviews are currently designed to generate national estimates of the incidence or distribution of quality problems . However , HHS ...
... activities of each contract review system , nor the HCFA systems for validating the accuracy of medical reviews are currently designed to generate national estimates of the incidence or distribution of quality problems . However , HHS ...
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... Review Activities Table 4.1 : Overview of Peer Review Organizations ' Quality - Related Review Activities Table 5.1 : Primary Quality of Care and Quality - Related Data From Carrier , Intermediary , and PRO Case Reviews Table 5.2 : HCFA ...
... Review Activities Table 4.1 : Overview of Peer Review Organizations ' Quality - Related Review Activities Table 5.1 : Primary Quality of Care and Quality - Related Data From Carrier , Intermediary , and PRO Case Reviews Table 5.2 : HCFA ...
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... Evaluation Program Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities Diagnosis - related group Experimental Medical Care Review Organization General Accounting Office Health Care Financing Administration Department of Health and Human ...
... Evaluation Program Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities Diagnosis - related group Experimental Medical Care Review Organization General Accounting Office Health Care Financing Administration Department of Health and Human ...
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accuracy admission appropriate Assessing Quality bills Carrier and Intermediary charges clinical coordination costs coverage criteria currently data system determine Developing a Medicare diagnostic codes electrocardiograms evaluation example Existing Data Resources funding guidelines HCFA's health care health services research HMOS and CMPS ICD-9-CM codes identify indicator initial inpatient inpatient hospital intensified review Intermediary and Carrier Intermediary Medical Review issues Medicaid medical necessity medical records Medicare beneficiaries Medicare program Medicare Quality Assurance methods monitoring NCHSR&HCTA neopl nosocomial infections optional screens outliers outpatient Peer Review Organizations percent physical therapy physician plans posthospital premature discharges PRO's procedures profiles PROMPTS-2 PROS prospective payment quality assessment Quality Assurance Strategy quality of care quality problems quality review quality screens quality-related readmissions recommend report to HCFA Resources for Assessing responsibility review activities simple mastectomy skilled nursing facility specific standards studies subacute care SuperPRO tion utilization X X X
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Page 97 - Amendments of 1967) respecting — (1) the accessibility, acceptability, planning, organization, distribution, technology, utilization, quality, and financing of health services and systems; (2) the supply and distribution, education and training, quality, utilization, organization, and costs of health manpower...
Page 19 - Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided...
Page 19 - Nothing in this title shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary or any other officer or employee of the United States to interfere in any way with the practice of medicine or with relationships between practitioners of medicine and their patients, or to exercise any supervision or control over the administration or operation of any hospital. (2) The term "period of disability...
Page 53 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DECEMBER 10, 1987 RELEASE ONLY UPON DELIVERY Food and Drug Administration Rockville MO 20857 Introduction Mr.
Page 19 - ... aggregate amount expended in fiscal year 1988 for direct and administrative costs (adjusted for inflation and for any direct or administrative costs incurred as a result of review functions added with respect to a subsequent fiscal year) of such reviews), (ii) in the case of hospitals...
Page 28 - Other types of abuse include, but are not limited to "excessive charges for services or supplies," "claims for services not medically necessary, or if medically necessary, not to the extent rendered...
Page 43 - Medicare payment; and (4) the necessity and appropriateness of care for which payment is sought on an "outlier...
Page 18 - Secretary, with the concurrence of the members of the appropriate program review team appointed pursuant to section 1862(d) (4) who are physicians or other professional personnel in the health care field, to be substantially in excess of the needs of individuals or to be harmful to individuals or to be of a grossly inferior quality.
Page 49 - Hospital acquired decubitus ulcer 19 f. Care resulting in serious or life-threatening complications, not related to admitting signs and symptoms, including but not limited to the neurological, endocrine, cardiovascular, renal or respiratory body systems (eg. resulting in dialysis. unplanned transfer to special care unit, lengthened hospital stay).
Page 48 - Temperature on day before or day of discharge greater than 101 degrees oral (rectal 102 degrees). c. Pulse less than 50 (or 45 if the patient is on a beta blocker), or greater than 120 within 24 hours of discharge.