IPRO has been awarded special federal funding to promote the use of a surgical management tool it recently converted from a paper-based format to a mobile application. The free, smart phone application and online tool developed by an IPRO-led coalition enables clinicians to easily determine whether, when, and how to stop and restart the use… Continue Reading
IPRO Joins Payment Reform Partnership
IPRO has received special recognition from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN), a national public-private partnership aimed at adopting alternative payment models (APMs) that reduce costs and improve outcomes for patients. As a LAN “Committed Partner,” IPRO agrees to take concrete steps to promote reimbursement methodologies that reward value and incentivize improvement…. Continue Reading
Payment LAN News
IPRO and the IPRO-led Atlantic Quality Innovation Network have received special recognition from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCP LAN), a national public-private partnership aimed at adopting alternative payment models (APMs) that reduce costs and improve outcomes for patients. As a HCP LAN “Committed Partner,” IPRO agrees to take concrete steps to… Continue Reading
Physician Groups Urge Caution in Payment Reform
More than 3,000 comments were received prior to the June 27 submission deadline for the proposed rule implementing the Quality Payment Program, which, under federal law, replaces the Sustainable Growth Rate methodology for updating physician payments under Medicare. The proposed rule, which carries a 60-day comment period, offers detail on how the Centers for Medicare… Continue Reading
New Federal Proposal Emphasizes Infection Prevention
Infection prevention is a key element of a new federal proposed rule intended to update the Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation affecting 6,228 acute care and critical access hospitals across the U.S. The proposed rule issued June 13 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would require hospitals to empanel hospital-wide prevention and… Continue Reading
Diabetes Self-Management a Growth Industry
IPRO is on track to graduate 10,000 seniors from its Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) program by 2019, according to a June 28 Grand Rounds presentation to CMS staff in Baltimore by Janice Hidalgo, who directs IPRO’s Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) initiative. Initiated in 2008, under IPRO’s Medicare-funded QIO contract, IPRO’s bilingual program targets Hispanic… Continue Reading
IPRO Physician Leads Payment Reform Workgroup
IPRO Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Edison Machado, MD, MBA chaired a workgroup of AHQA that submitted industry comments June 27 on a major proposed rule regarding the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MIPS replaces the Sustainable Growth Rate formula for updating Medicare payments to… Continue Reading
IPRO’s Everyone With Diabetes Counts (EDC) Initiative
IPRO is on track to graduate 10,000 seniors from our Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) program by 2019, according to a June 28 Grand Rounds presentation to CMS staff in Baltimore by Janice Hidalgo, who directs IPRO’s Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) initiative. Initiated in 2008, IPRO’s bilingual program targets Hispanic and African-American seniors utilizing a… Continue Reading
Chief Medical Officer to Lead Trade Association
IPRO’s Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President Clare Bradley, MD, MPH, has been chosen President-Elect of the American Health Quality Association (AHQA), a Washington DC-area healthcare trade association. Voting for a new slate of officers of AHQA took place at the association’s Quality Summit held June 2 in Baltimore. AHQA represents quality improvement professionals… Continue Reading
IPRO Is the Winner of a 2016 Silver Innovation Award from Avatar Solutions
IPRO is the winner of a 2016 Silver Innovation Award from Avatar Solutions, a leading provider of employee engagement surveys nationwide. The award recognizes successful expansion of our Town Hall Meeting program, with a format that permits participation by all employees in a number of locations across the entire organization, utilizing web-ex technology. IPRO’s enhanced staff… Continue Reading