Information sought on CMS oversight of hospital accrediting organizations

Editor's Note

Energy and Commerce Committee leaders on March 9 sent letters to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and four hospital accrediting organizations to provide information about the hospital survey process and CMS oversight of the organizations by March 23. The letters were sent after questions were raised about patient safety problems at hospitals in a September 2017 Wall Street Journal article.

In the letter, the leaders wrote that they are concerned about the adequacy of CMS’s oversight and the rigor of the accrediting organizations’ survey  process.

The leaders also asked the four accreditors−the Joint Commission, Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality, Bureau of Healthcare Facilities Accreditation, and DNV GL Healthcare−to brief them on their survey processes and interactions with CMS by April 6.

WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders recently sent letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and four hospital accreditation entities following a series of questions raised in a September 2017 article in The Wall Street Journal about patient safety problems at hospitals.

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