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CMS to pilot voluntary surgical quality reporting for hospitals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites hospitals reporting to the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database (ACS NSQIP®) to voluntarily report surgical outcomes on Hospital Compare beginning in 2012.  ACS NSQIP hospitals can publicly report, on a voluntary basis, one or more of the following three measures: elderly surgery outcomes, colectomy outcomes and lower-extremity bypass outcomes.

To be a part of the pilot, ACS NSQIP hospitals must contact ACS directly to indicate their intent to participate by May 1, 2012. Hospitals not currently in ACS NSQIP also have the opportunity to join the pilot by indicating their interest by March 1, 2012.

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