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Medicare's Quality Reporting Sparks Frustration
Attendees pan government website during lively breakout session.
D
avid Shapiro, MD, CASC, immediate past president of the ASC
Association, started an informative breakout session with an
overview of Medicare's surgery center quality reporting program. He ended it by lending an empathetic ear to irritated facility leaders.
In 2012, freestanding ASCs that bill Medicare with
their own CMS certification number began using quality data G-codes to voluntarily report on the occurrence of 5 potential adverse events: patient burns,
patient falls, wrong-site surgery, hospital transfers
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David Shapiro,
MD, isn't any
happier with
CMS than the
facility leaders
who heard him
speak.
and prophylactic IV antibiotic timing.
Centers that did not submit quality data beginning
October 1, 2012, will have
their 2014 ASC conversion
factors reduced by 2%,
meaning all claims will be
paid at a lower rate.
CMS has started providing feedback and the statistics look good, according to Dr. Shapiro. "Now
we have data to prove
we're providing quality
care. That's great news in
the ASC community as we
build our case for higher
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