HCQM - Accreditation Organizations
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
Accreditation - ANSWER-A voluntary process that a health care institution,
provider or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance with standards
developed by an official agency.
EA Codman - ANSWER-founded the American College of Surgeons. Wanted to
collect statistics to foster standardization across hospitals.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - ANSWER-In 1953, the
American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American
Hospital Association and the American Medical Association and the Canadian
Medical Association formed this to handle hospital accreditation.
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program - ANSWER-Formed by the American
Osteopathic Association to provide medical facilities with an objective review of
their services.
1965 Darlington v Charleston Community Memorial Hospital - ANSWER-
Established institutional liability for the quality of medical care provided by
physicians
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, National Quality Forum - ANSWER-Established in 1999 with the mission to
improve the quality of US Healthcare
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - ANSWER-Created in 2003
providing consumers with healthcare quality information.
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (now the Physician Quality Reporting
System) - ANSWER-In 2006 formed to allow providers to report on quality
measures - although voluntary, Medicare payment adjustments will be applied
beginning 2015
Deemed authority - ANSWER-If a national accreditation organization has, and
enforces, standards that meet or exceed the federal conditions of participation,
CMS may grant the accrediting organization deemed authority and deem each
accredited health care organization as meeting the CMS certification requirements.
Accredited organizations with deemed status are exempt from routine surveys by
state survey agencies and have been determined to be compliant with Medicare
conditions.
Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation - ANSWER-Required by the
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Includes MRI,
CT and PET. Can be performed by The American College of Radiology, the
Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, or the Joint Commission.
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Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
Accreditation - ANSWER-A voluntary process that a health care institution,
provider or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance with standards
developed by an official agency.
EA Codman - ANSWER-founded the American College of Surgeons. Wanted to
collect statistics to foster standardization across hospitals.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - ANSWER-In 1953, the
American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American
Hospital Association and the American Medical Association and the Canadian
Medical Association formed this to handle hospital accreditation.
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program - ANSWER-Formed by the American
Osteopathic Association to provide medical facilities with an objective review of
their services.
1965 Darlington v Charleston Community Memorial Hospital - ANSWER-
Established institutional liability for the quality of medical care provided by
physicians
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 1
, National Quality Forum - ANSWER-Established in 1999 with the mission to
improve the quality of US Healthcare
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - ANSWER-Created in 2003
providing consumers with healthcare quality information.
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (now the Physician Quality Reporting
System) - ANSWER-In 2006 formed to allow providers to report on quality
measures - although voluntary, Medicare payment adjustments will be applied
beginning 2015
Deemed authority - ANSWER-If a national accreditation organization has, and
enforces, standards that meet or exceed the federal conditions of participation,
CMS may grant the accrediting organization deemed authority and deem each
accredited health care organization as meeting the CMS certification requirements.
Accredited organizations with deemed status are exempt from routine surveys by
state survey agencies and have been determined to be compliant with Medicare
conditions.
Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation - ANSWER-Required by the
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Includes MRI,
CT and PET. Can be performed by The American College of Radiology, the
Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, or the Joint Commission.
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 2
