CMS to Award More Contracts For Hospital Engagement Networks

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is awarding a second round of contracts to hospital associations and other groups to help continue reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions, the agency said Feb. 11.

The agency in a blog post said funding under the Hospital Engagement Network will be available for national, regional or state hospital associations; large health-care organizations that hold corporate ownership and operational control of a group of hospitals that consists of at least 25 hospitals; or national affinity organizations that will support hospitals in their efforts to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.

The CMS said ...