Medicare's quality improvement organization program : maximizing potential /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.
Description:	xxi, 518 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Pathways to quality health care
Subject:	Medicare -- Quality control. Medical care -- United States -- Quality control. Health care reform -- United States. Medicare -- organization & administration. Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States. Health Care Reform -- organization & administration -- United States. Quality of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States. Health care reform. Medical care -- Quality control. Medicare -- Quality control. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6116774

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Other authors / contributors:	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs.
ISBN:	0309101085 (hardback) 9780309101080
Notes:	"This study was supported by Contract No. HHSM-500-2004-00010C between the National Academy of Sciences and the United States Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. A historical perspective and the current QIO program
2. Assessment of the QIO program : findings and conclusions
3. Performance, measurement, quality improvement, and other entities
4. Improving quality and performance measurement by the QIO program
5. CMS oversight of the operations and management of the QIO program
6. Study approach
7. Structure and finances
8. Technical assistance for quality improvement
9. Impact of technical assistance for quality improvement and knowledge transfer
10. Evaluation of quality improvement achieved by the QIO program
11. Beneficiary education and communications
12. Protection of Medicare beneficiaries and program integrity
13. CMS oversight.

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