Transition From Current Accuracy Measures in the Vascular Laboratory Will Be Required for Future Accreditation and Payment Models

The Medicare Accessibility and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act (MACRA) brings with it increased regulatory requirements not traditionally addressed by standard vascular laboratory (VL) accreditation, which is based on accuracy. The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission new Quality Improvement project may satisfy an Improvement Activity (IA) of MACRA. We hypothesize that other IAs in MACRA, such as timeliness of test results or patient care Quality Performance requirements, can be met by analyzing data already collected by the VL.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Abstract from the 2017 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research