IPRO, one of the nation's leading quality improvement and evaluation organizations, has created a Limited Liability Company (LLC) that will assume all of IPRO's compliance audit oversight and consulting contracts with managed care organizations (MCOs).
Anthony Shih, M.D., M.P.H., has rejoined IPRO as Chief Quality Officer and Vice President of Strategic Planning, after a two-year stint at The Commonwealth Fund, a national foundation committed to improving U.S. health system performance, where he directed the foundation's Program on Health Care Quality Improvement and Efficiency.
CMS has issued a new rule requiring hospice providers participating in Medicare to implement a quality assessment and improvement system, the Washington Post reports.
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