The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General will intensify its push to reform healthcare delivery, improve alternative care models and value-based purchasing; the emphasis will be on cutting care costs and averting duplicate payments.
- “Developing an estimate for national rates of adverse and temporary harm events involving Medicare patients receiving post-acute care at rehabilitation centers.
- “Developing similar estimates of harm events in long-term care hospitals as well as contributing factors and associated costs.
- “Assessing hospitals’ readiness for high-risk infectious diseases, in keeping with its previous analysis of threats such as pandemics and national disaster preparedness.”