American Heart Association: CMS Plans To Change Stroke Measures

American Heart Association: CMS Plans To Change Stroke Measures-insidehealthpolicy: The American Heart Association has a commitment from CMS and the “highest levels” of the White House to account for the severity of strokes in outcomes measures upon which hospital pay is based, AHA Vice President of Federal Advocacy Sue Nelson said, even though the final inpatient-hospital pay rule for next fiscal year did not. CMS included in the pay rule stroke outcomes-measures that a bipartisan group of lawmakers, medical groups and the National Quality Forum urged the agency to drop on the grounds that the measures do not account for the severity of strokes.