Observational Trends in Publicly Reported Quality Measures of Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program, 2013-2019

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2022

Subject Area

Aged; Hospitals; Humans; Medicare; Outpatients; Quality Indicators, Health Care; United States

Abstract

In 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program to assess the quality of outpatient imaging efficiency (OIE). In this study, trends in hospital performance on these national hospital OIE measures a year after inception and public reporting were described. An observational trend analysis was conducted using 2013-2019 data from CMS 6 OIE measures. The trend analysis of metric scores indicates year-to-year variability in all 6 OIE variables. The reporting of these measures appears to have effectively improved the efficiency of most of the measures since the inception of the program.

Publication Title

The Journal of ambulatory care management

Volume

45

Issue

3

First Page

202

Last Page

211

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1097/JAC.0000000000000416

PubMed ID

35612391

E-ISSN

1550-3267

Language

eng

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