Nancy Tuders, FACDONA, IP-BC, AS-BC and QAPI-BC Q: I am a DON at a facility with a new administrator who has not been very engaged in our QAPI meetings. What can I share with her to make our meetings ...

As a Condition for Participation in the Medicare program, hospitals must establish and maintain a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program. To meet QAPI requirements under 42 CFR ...

Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the ...

The American Hospital Association has criticized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule, saying the increase for ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Sandra Jones, FHFMA, LHRM, CASC, owner, Ambulatory Strategies, Inc., and an executive vice president with ASD Management ...

A critical decision in a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement plan is not what, but whom, to include, a former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official said at the annual NADONA ...

ASC Durango (Colo.) recently underwent its first AAAHC survey and achieved accreditation. Cheryl Desko, RN, clinical director for the ASC, discusses three quality assessment and performance ...