Healthcare is all abuzz about evidence-based medicine (EBM), and legions of clinicians are struggling with how to incorporate EBM into the new paradigm of providing the safest possible high-quality healthcare in the most efficient manner.
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Fifteen years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a landmark report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” The IOM shocked the world revealing that up to 98,000 humans may die each year as a result of medical errors. That actually came as no surprise to those of us dedicated to patient safety and medical error reduction for the last two decades.As a healthcare provider, one need only pay attention to see that the frequency of errors is obvious. As a healthcare worker with a family member in the hospital, a tally sheet is required if you want to know the real frequency of medical error. Count them up.
This presentation will be a bit of a departure from our typical clinical case presentation-discussion format. But the time has come to offer a look at the medical marketplace from 20,000 feet, how healthcare organizations are responding, the regulatory changes that are tied to clinical performance, and the support TSG provides to facilitate this clinical transformation to achieve success.
Clinicians play an integral role in leading the adoption of CMS regulatory changes.
What follows is a summary of program updates for FY2017 that will impact healthcare reimbursement.
Value-Based Purchasing Program:
The Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program for FY2017 (with performance period of 2015) will focus on several domains:
