Quality Reporting
Quality reporting on certain measures, established by state and federal guidelines, allows health care providers to provide the public with information on hospital safety, cost and quality.
Besides required federal and state reporting listed below, hospitals can voluntarily submit data to other national agencies. Hospitals report both process and outcome measures. Process measures evaluate how often a hospital gives recommended treatments for certain conditions or procedures. Outcome measures evaluate the results of care or treatment for those conditions or procedures.
Mandatory State Quality Reporting
House Bill 197, legislation enacted in 2006, requires hospitals to report on the following measures to the
Ohio Department of Health (ODH) twice a year (April 1 and Oct. 1):
- Heart Failure
- Pneumonia
- Heart Attack (AMI)
- Surgical Care
- Immunizations
- Patient Satisfaction
- Infection Prevention
- Prenatal Care
- Pediatrics
- Patient Safety/Quality Indicators
Mandatory National Quality Reporting
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
CMS requires health care providers to report on quality measures in the areas of AMI, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, hospital-acquired conditions, infection prevention, readmissions, mortality and structural measures. Hospitals are also required to submit data for heart attack and chest pain patients transferred to another hospital and outpatient surgeries.
The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission requires health care providers to report quarterly on any four of the following ten measures: heart failure, surgical procedures, pneumonia, heart attack (AMI), perinatal care, psychiatry, childhood asthma, outpatient surgery, emergency department and immunization.
For more information, view a quality reporting fact sheet.
To repeal certain hospital performance reporting requirements.
No related legislation.
OHA Media Statement - President Barack Obama FFY 2013 Budget
February 15, 2012:
Earlier this week President Barack Obama’s administration released the FFY 2013 federal budget spending and policy targets. The package proposes a total of $364 billion in health savings over ten years, including $268 billion in Medicare provider cuts and $51 billion in Medicaid cuts. After review of this budget, OHA has made this initial statement:
“Ohio hospitals strongly believe all critical aspects of the health care system must be adequately supported, without undercutting some segments to provide for others. In the federal budget proposal submitted by President Obama, programs that provide training for future physicians, assure access to care in rural communities and support health care for the low-income seniors, families and children are all put at risk. As Congress begins to review this budget and addresses more immediate concerns with physician payment cuts, unemployment compensation and payroll taxes, hospitals welcome the opportunity to demonstrate how proposed budget cuts could have unintended consequences of health care job losses and reduced access to care,” said Mike Abrams, president and CEO of the Ohio Hospital Association.
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