CMS delays inpatient, outpatient quality reporting deadlines
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday delayed to Feb. 8 the deadline for reporting certain third-quarter 2013 quality data to the Medicare inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs. The one-week delay affects inpatient population and sampling data for chart-abstracted quality measures, outpatient population and sampling data, and outpatient chart-abstracted measures. The delay was prompted by severe weather in the Southeast, but applies to all hospitals participating in the programs.
Hospitals with questions about the delay should contact their state Quality Improvement Organization for more information. Other questions about the quality programs should be directed to the QualityNet help desk at (866) 288-8912.
