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 will offer a replay of the call on Sept. 24, followed by a live question-and-answer session. Hospitals should have received a notice from CMS with further details.
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. American Hospital Association urges hospitals to review and provide feedback on the data to CMS (as described in the dry run materials) and to the AHA at nfoster@aha.org.
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