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Month: May 2022

Emergency in the ER: Growing Violence Against Hospital Workers

Emergency in the ER: Growing Violence Against Hospital Workers

May 11, 2022 As the Russian ambassador and a U.S general lunge into a physical altercation with one another in a secure area of the Pentagon, the president scolds them both with the admonition: “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here.  This is the War Room!”  The iconic line from Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy, Dr. Strangelove, does not fail to deliver its intended effect, i.e., to soak the movie-goer in dripping irony. How ironic it is to receive continual reports over the…

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2023 Proposed IPPS: Quality Program Changes

2023 Proposed IPPS: Quality Program Changes

May 4, 2022 In last week’s alert, we provided some of the key highlights found in the federal government’s Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Proposed Rule (PR) for fiscal year (FY) 2023 (beginning October 1, 2022).  Today’s alert will flesh out some of the proposed changes in hospital-related quality programs found in that same PR. Quality-Reporting Program The Hospital Inpatient Quality-Reporting (IQR) Program is a pay-for-reporting quality program that reduces payment to those hospitals failing to meet the specified…

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