CMS planning outreach opportunities on hospital-wide readmissions measure

Due to problems with the phone line during a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services conference call on the new hospital-wide readmissions measure, the agency is working on a way for interested hospitals to participate in the full presentation and ask questions. The American Hospital Association will provide more information to hospitals as it becomes available.

Hospitals have until Oct. 3 to download and review mock hospital-specific reports and other data from "dry runs" of the hospital-wide readmission measure and hip and knee replacement complications and readmissions measures to be added to the Hospital Compare website in 2013. AHA urges hospitals to review and provide feedback on the data to CMS as described in the dry run materials and to nfoster@aha.org.