Hospitals in the prospective payment system now have until Feb. 24 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time to submit chart-abstracted clinical measures and the web-based perinatal care measure in the inpatient quality reporting program. Prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals also have until Feb. 24 to submit cancer-specific treatment measure data.
Additionally, hospitals in both programs now have until March 15 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time to submit healthcare-associated infection data to the National Healthcare Safety Network. Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and long-term care hospitals can submit HAI data through May 15 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.
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