{"id":11119,"date":"2018-08-06T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2018-08-06T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:09:12","slug":"cms-drops-proposal-to-reduce-public-reporting-of-hospital-infections-safety-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11119","title":{"rendered":"CMS drops proposal to reduce public reporting of hospital infections, safety issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Megan Knowles for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>CMS will publicly disclose hospital errors, injuries and infections it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/leapfrog-disputes-cms-plan-to-remove-some-safety-infection-stats-from-quality-reporting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed<\/a>\u00a0removing\u00a0from one of its public reporting programs, the agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment\/AcuteInpatientPPS\/FY2018-IPPS-Final-Rule-Home-Page-Items\/FY2018-IPPS-Final-Rule-Regulations.html?DLPage=1&amp;DLEntries=10&amp;DLSort=0&amp;DLSortDir=ascending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a new rule published August 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/cms-drops-proposal-to-reduce-public-reporting-of-hospital-infections-safety-issues.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7810\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Megan Knowles for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS will publicly disclose hospital errors, injuries and infections it\u00a0proposed\u00a0removing\u00a0from one of its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11120,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions\/11120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}