2025 OPPS Proposed Rule: Important Changes Coming to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program

Talk Ten Tuesdays

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule includes proposed policies that align with several key goals for the agency, one of which is promoting safe, effective, patient-centered care. CMS has several quality measure changes being proposed to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) program within the OPPS Proposed Rule.
During the next live edition of the long-running and popular Internet broadcast ICD10monitor, Colleen Ejak, from 3M/Solventum, will report on the important details concerning the Hospital OQR program and the 2025 proposed impact to outpatient quality reporting.
Also during the broadcast, these instantly recognizable panelists will report more news:
• The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news.

• Social Determinants of Health: Tiffany Ferguson, CEO for Phoenix Medical Management, Inc., will report on the news that is happening at the intersection of medical record auditing and the SDoH.

• News Desk: Timothy Powell, ICD10monitor national correspondent and regulatory expert, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.

• TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

Chapter

1. 2025 OPPS Proposed Rule: Important Changes Coming to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program (00:00:00)

2. Timothy Powell, CPA (00:02:17)

3. ICD10monitor Commercial (00:06:12)

4. Laurie Johnson, MS (00:07:43)

5. ICD10monitor Commercial (00:11:31)

6. Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW (00:12:17)

7. Colleen Deighan-Ejak, RHIA (00:16:01)

8. Erica Remer, MD (00:21:44)

9. Closing (00:27:58)