Quiz 4 Flashcards
Ch. 10, 11, 12
Licensure
The process that gives a facility legal approval to operate.
-Overseen by State government
Certification
Gives a health organization the authority to participate in the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs.
-CMS develops minimum standards and conditions of participation
Accreditation
A voluntary, external review process.
-Organizations receive financial and legal incentives for becoming accredited
The Joint Commission
An independent, not-for-profit organization
- Best-known health care accrediting agency in the U.S.
- Performs site surveys every 3 years (2 for Labs)
- Publish a standards manual annually
Deemed Status
Facilities that are accredited by an approved national accreditation organization (AO) are exempt from routine State surveys for Medicare conditions, under Section 1865 of the Social Security Act,
Categories of Accreditation: Preliminary Accreditation
For organizations that demonstrate compliance with select standards under the Early Survey Policy, which allows organizations to undergo a survey prior to having the ability to demonstrate full compliance.
-Required to undergo a second on-site survey.
Categories of Accreditation: Accreditation
For organizations that demonstrate compliance with all standards.
Categories of Accreditation: Accreditation with Follow-up Survey
For organizations that are not in compliance with specific standards and require a follow-up survey within thirty days to six months.
Categories of Accreditation: Contingent Accreditation
For organizations that fail to address all requirements in an accreditation with follow-up survey decision
OR
For organizations that do not have the proper license or other similar issue at the time of the initial survey
-Generally: A follow-up survey is required within 30 days.
Categories of Accreditation: Preliminary Denial of Accreditation
For organizations for which there is justification for denying accreditation.
-This decision is subject to appeal
Categories of Accreditation: Denial of Accreditation
For organizations that fail to meet standards and that have exhausted all appeals.
Joint Commission Standards: Record of Care (RC), Treatment, and Services Standard
Provide information about the requirements for the content of a complete health record, regardless of format.
Joint Commission Standards: Information Management Standards
J-CO’s belief that quality information influences quality care.
-Applies to non-computerized systems and systems with the latest technologies.
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Leading accrediting body for health plans.
2015 Health Plan includes:
- Quality Management and Improvement (QI)
- Utilization Management (UM)
- Credentialing and Re-credentialing (CR)
- Members’ Rights and Responsibilites (RR)
- Member Connections (MEM)
- Medicaid benefits and services (MED)
- Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001)
A publication by the Institute of Medicine that outlines six aims for establishing quality health care:
1) Safe
2) Effective
3) Patient-centered
4) Timely
5) Efficient
6) Equitable
Quality Care - Data Sources for Measure
- Administrative: Claims databases
- Disease Registries: Data on patients with specific conditions
- Health Records: Detailed patient information
- Qualitative Data: Patient surveys or interviews
Quality Care Measures: Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
- Oldest and most widely used in the U.S.
- More than 90% of health plans collect and report HEDIS data.
Quality Care Measures: Clinical Quality Measures (CQM)
- Identified and updated annually by CMS
- Developed by private organizations, health care societies, collaboratives, alliances, and government agencies.
-Required for J-CO accreditation
Comparative Health Care Data Sets
Benchmarking to determine quality
Patient Satisfaction Data Sets
Reliance on survey data by third party surveyors.
-AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAPHS) program
Practice Patterns Data Sets
Dartmouth Atlas: Online, interactive tool funded by Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Clinical Data Sets
Quality Check:
-Introduced in 1994 by J-Co.
Hospital Compare:
-CMS-sponsored interactive, online comparative data sets.
Comparative Data for Health Plans
-NCQA health care report cards
Federal Quality Improvement Initiatives
Patient Safety Act:
-Patient Safety Organizations (PSO): responsible for the collection and analysis of health information that is referred to in the Final Rule as patient safety work product (PSWP)
- PSWP: Contains identifiable patient information covered by specific privilege and confidentiality protections
- –Incidents
- –Near Misses (close calls)
- –Unsafe conditions
-Common Formats: established by AHRQ to help providers uniformly report patient safety events.
National Quality Strategy
Outlines 3 broad aims used to guide and assess national efforts to improve health and the quality of health care.
-Established by the Affordable Care Act and published in 2011
National Quality Strategy’s 3 Broad Aims: Better Care
Improve the overall quality by making health care more patient-centered, reliable, accessible, and safe.
National Quality Strategy’s 3 Broad Aims: Healthy People/Healthy Communities
Improve the health of the US population by supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health in addition to delivering higher-quality care.
National Quality Strategy’s 3 Broad Aims: Affordable Care
Reduces the cost of quality health care for individuals, families, employers, and government
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Measurement and Feedback
Provider performance feedback to plans and providers to improve care.
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Public Reporting
Compare treatment results, costs, and patient experience for consumers.
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Learning and Technical Assistance
Foster learning environments that offer training, resources, tools, and guidance to help organizations achieve quality improvement goals.
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Certification, Accreditation, and Regulation
Adopt or adhere to approaches to meet safety and quality standards.
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Consumer Incentives and Benefit Designs
Help consumers adopt health behaviors and make informed decisions
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Payment
Reward and incentivize providers to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care.
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Health Information Technology
Improve communication, transparency, and efficiency for better coordinated health and health care
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Innovation and Diffusion
Foster innovation in health care quality improvement and facilitate rapid adoption within and across organizations and communities.
Levers to Ensure Alignment with NQS: Workforce Development
Invest in people to prepare the next generation of health care professionals and support lifelong learning or providers
Quality Improvement: CMS Programs
Original, value-based programs were an attempt to link performance on endorsed quality measures to reimbursement.
CMS QI Programs: Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP)
Program rewards acute care hospitals for quality care using incentives
CMS QI Programs: Hospital Readmissions Reductions (HRR)
Program rewards acute care hospitals that reduce unnecessary hospital readmission for certain conditions.