ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿

Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs until early to mid-March because the Health Care Quality Information System Data Center is being relocated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . “Although the [hospital quality reporting] programs will ultimately benefit from this change, the relocation will result in a delay in the anticipated CMS system release applicable to fourth-quarter 2015 discharges/encounters (including sepsis data and ICD-10 codes),” the agency said. Future updates on the system’s availability will be posted at . CMS does not expect the relocation to affect access to the system for the February and May data submission deadlines.