Articles in Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 14 Issue 3
Joint Commission–accredited hospitals and CAHs must have a process for requesting an 1135 waiver from CMS
For every additional doctor involved in a patient’s care, patients will stay nearly an extra day in the hospital.
The study found that the CMS rating system does not account for social risk factors (SRF) and as a result, provider organizations could be judged on “social factors outside of their control.”
