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Healthcare News: JAMA study calculates time, cost of quality program reporting for large hospital

A June study in The Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that data collection and reporting efforts to comply with CMS inpatient hospital quality programs cost more than $5 million and took more than 100,000 personnel hours for a large hospital.

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