In August, Morehead Memorial Hospital of Eden, North Carolina, became the 150th hospital in the United States to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification from DNV-GL Healthcare. To earn it, Morehead had ...

A preliminary denial offers a stark reminder that even top-rated hospitals are not ­immune to survey deficiencies...

In August, CMS announced a few changes to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), changing how pneumonia readmissions are calculated and making excessive coronary artery bypass grafts read...

Between 2010 and 2015, hospital readmission rates have dropped an average of 8% nationally, with 100,000 unnecessary patient readmissions avoided in 2015 alone. ...

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HFAP this week released its prepublication manual for critical access hospital (CAH), and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) surveys....

A proposed CMS change to the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule will require surgeons document and report data every 10 minutes for new billing codes (G-codes). The penalty for not submitting this d...

CMS announced on September 8 that it had finalized new emergency response requirements for healthcare providers participating in the Medicare or Medicaid system.The new rules go into effect on Novembe...

After months of delays, CMS in July publicly released its hospital star ratings system on its Hospital Compare website. The public can now see the Hospital Compare overall rating for 3,662 hospitals a...

Keeping a hospital compliant and survey ready is a difficult, endless, and often frustrating task. One of the difficulties can be impressing the importance of accreditation to those who aren't immerse...