News Headlines For the last two years, healthcare organizations have been working to comply with the first phase of The Joint Commission's alarm management National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG). As of January 1, 2016, they'll have to contend with the second phase as well.  It’s the second year for CMS’s value-based payment modifier (VBM) program, a part of the Affordable Care Act using Medicare reimbursements to encourage high-quality and cost-effective care. However, the number of physician groups rewarded for their scores on the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) was under a tenth of a fraction of 1%. Preparing for CMS and Joint Commission surveys is a crucially important task, but are you focusing on the right things? There's a chance you're not.
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