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CMS Invites Comments on Readmissions Quality Measure

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is inviting interested stakeholders to review and comment on a hospitalwide, all-cause unplanned readmission hybrid electronic clinical quality measure currently under development. The proposed measure includes information from claims data describing patients’ conditions and clinical data from electronic health records. Measure specifications and preliminary testing results are outlined in the draft technical report.

CMS will collect comments from July 14 at 8 am ET until Aug. 8 at 5 pm ET. Please contact Xiaoyi Huang, JD, director of policy, at xhuang@essentialhospitals.org or 202.585.0127 with questions.

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Matt Buechner is the policy and advocacy associate for America's Essential Hospitals.

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