CMS Releases Revision to Hospital QAPI Interpretive Guidelines

CMS has revised interpretive guidelines for the hospital Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program Conditions of Participation (CoPs). The updated hospital QAPI program interpretive guidance provides an essential tool for surveyors and hospital staff to more consistently focus their evaluation on a hospital’s efforts not only to improve its performance and quality, but also on its ability to sustain such efforts over time. The updated interpretive guidance also emphasizes the integral role hospital leadership plays in advancing a sustained program for improvement throughout the hospital. Read the CMS Quality, Safety and Oversight memo QSO-23-09-Hospital.