Hospitals have collected and reported clinical quality data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission each quarter for several years. Just when many hospitals have effective systems for meeting this requirement, in April 2008, CMS expanded clinical quality reporting to include hospital outpatients.
Hospitals must document and publicly report key indicators. Soon, reimbursement will be linked to achievement. And errors can result in deficiencies that affect your financial bottom-line. Your hospital data needs to accurately reflect the quality of your care, but data specifications are highly technical and ever-changing.
Primaris can help get better results and save you 25% in the process.
Primaris will conduct the medical record reviews for you using a stringent, consistent methodology which includes a strict inter-rater reliability and validation process. We will review your records:
- using the same processes as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,
- with the most up-to-date technical specifications
- and an unbiased eye.
We can significantly improve validation scoring. Plus, we can provide your hospital with regular feedback reports that not only outline your data results, but also provide recommendations for documentation and process improvements. This allows improvements before the next review cycle.
Primaris staff members have been collecting Core Measure data since 1999, when the Joint Commission engaged four volunteer states, including Missouri, in its Core Measure pilot program. We have trained hundreds of hospital staff members in Core Measure abstraction.
Keep your nurses at the bedside where they are needed most. Let Primaris take care of your record reviews.
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As the Missouri Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), Primaris adheres to strict standards to avoid potential conflicts of interest between requirements of its QIO contract and non-QIO contract relationships with Missouri healthcare providers . As a result, this service is not available in Missouri.
Hospital Core Measure Abstraction
