Abstract
Hospital accreditation and state certification are the means that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) employs to meet quality of care requirements for medical care reimbursement. Hospitals can choose to use either a national accrediting agency or a state certification inspection in order to receive Medicare payments. Approximately, 80% of hospitals choose the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). The purpose of this paper is to analyze and discuss improvements on the structure of the accreditation process in a Principal-Agent-Supervisor framework with a special emphasis on the oversight by the principal (CMS) of the supervisor (JCAHO).
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 109-115 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Health Policy |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2005 |
Keywords
- Accreditation
- Double moral hazard
- Hospital regulation
- JCAHO
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Health Policy
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