Joint Commission sets rules for performance systems

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has approved an initial method of determining performance standards for health organizations that seek accreditation. The Commission scrapped original plans to institute a single Indicator Monitoring System, with 30 performance indicators to be in place in 1996, after test hospitals had complaints about the system. Instead, the Commission will allow organizations seeking accreditation to choose from an array of performance measurement systems.

Health Care, Health Care and Social Assistance, Medical care, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

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'The bar has been set high': New AMA accreditation program sets high standards; now seeks participants

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The American Medical Association has released new standards for physicians under its American Medical Accreditation Program (AMAP). Healthcare sources say that the fact that the standards are set high should reflect well on the AMAP. Physician accreditation will be precluded if there has been final disciplinary action against any medical or osteopathic license within the last five years, fraud or felony conviction since medical school graduation, or reported adjudicated violation of the AMA's ethics code.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Physicians, Medical professions, American Medical Association

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HMO's suit says accreditation denial is unfair financial blow

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CaliforniaCare Health Plans has sued the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) over the accreditation body's denial of accreditation to the California HMO. The suit charges that NCQA's accreditation survey was secretive, inconsistent and cursury and that NCQA did not afford CaliforniaCare due process. The suit seeks monetary damages and an injunction preventing NCQA from disclosing or implementing its denial.

Health Maintenance Organizations, HMO Medical Centers, Cases, National Committee for Quality Assurance, CaliforniaCare Health Plans

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