Hospitals must submit specific quality performance data regarding Medicare patients or risk ____
a. An increase in federal tax
b. Decreased payments
c. Fewer physician referrals
d. Joint Commission sanctions
B
One of the first actions resulting from the Hospital Quality Initiative has been to require hospitals to submit their quality performance data for 10 measures to comply with the Medicare Prescrip-tion Drug Improvement and Modernization Act. Organizations that do not submit these data were to receive 0.4% smaller Medicare payments in fiscal year 2005.
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