Ensuring Health Care Quality
Providing quality patient care and clinical improvements
has always been an integral part of the AAMC's tripartite mission
of health care, research, and medical education. The AAMC will continue
to actively work with its members and outside stakeholders to ensure
that the physician workforce can provide patient-centered care to
everyone in our increasingly diverse society.
Hospital
Compare
Members of the Hospital Quality Alliance have launched Hospital
Compare, a Web site that provides the public with useful, easily
accessible information on hospital quality of care to assist patients,
families, and communities in making important health care decisions.
Hospital Quality Alliance
(HQA)
The AAMC is a founding member of the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA)
a national public-private collaboration that is committed to making
meaningful, relevant, and easily understood information about hospital
performance accessible to the public and to informing and encouraging
efforts to improve quality.
AAMC Comment Letter on 2009
Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (PDF, 16 pages)
On September 2, 2008, the AAMC provided comments to CMS on the
inclusion of a teaching adjustment in the outpatient prospective
payment system (OPPS). The AAMC additionally provides comments on
the outpatient quality reporting program, proposed composite ambulatory
payment classification (APC) groups for multiple imaging services,
proposed payment rate for separately payable drugs and biologicals
and charge compression, proposed changes to the cost report, outlier
payments and the partial hospitalization program (PHP).
Hospital
Field Unified Principles on Rewarding Performance Excellence
(PDF, 3 pages)
In the continued effort to improve the quality and safety of care
provided at hospitals, members of the hospital community came together
to develop a common set of Principles for the implementation of
Pay for Performance Programs.
Summary of Quality Provisions
in the FY 2009 Medicare Inpatient Proposed Rule (PDF, 6 pages)
CMS proposes expanding the list of selected Hospital Acquired Conditions
(HAC). CMS also proposes to add 43 new measures, and retire 1 measure
for the FY 2009 reporting period.
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