{"id":776,"date":"2015-09-02T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T04:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=776"},"modified":"2015-09-01T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T21:10:40","slug":"getting-around-those-quality-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Getting around those quality penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loophole in the Affordable Care Act legislation has evidently provided a way for hospitals to avoid penalties associated with low-quality measures. The loophole is discussed in an article by\u00a0Jacqueline DiChiara posted on\u00a0revcycleintelligence.com and confirmed in a recent <em><a href=\"http:\/\/healthaffairs.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/quality-improvement-become-good-at-cheating-and-you-never-need-to-become-good-at-anything-else\/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Affairs<\/a><\/em> study. <a href=\"http:\/\/revcycleintelligence.com\/news\/hospitals-dodge-financial-penalty-with-medicare-aca-loophole\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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; socialsecurityreport.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loophole in the Affordable Care Act legislation has evidently provided a way for hospitals to avoid penalties associated with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}