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Provider Organizations Call on CMS to Reconsider Expanded Quality Reporting Requirements

Healthcare Informatics: A number of healthcare provider organizations are calling on the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider requiring hospitals to submit 15 electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) in 2017.

As previously reported by Healthcare Informatics, CMS released the proposed Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule in April, and in the rule, CMS proposed mandatory full-year electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) reporting in 2017. CMS has proposed to mandate the electronic reporting of 15 clinical quality measures for 365 days using electronic health records (EHRs) in 2017. The proposed rule suggests eliminating 13 of the 28 eCQM from the hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program and the Meaningful Use program.

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