Di Hall

With over 18 years of healthcare industry experience, Di Hall is currently the director of compliance and quality improvement at Medical Doctor Associates, a locum tenens and permanent placement medical staffing firm. She is dually certified, CPCS and CPMSM, by the National Association of Medical Staff Services and is the current president-elect of the Georgia Association of Medical Staff Services.

Articles by Di Hall

• Clinical performance measures and the locum tenens physician

  Friday, January 24, 2014

  The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, is not only changing how the American public accesses health insurance, but also how healthcare services are reimbursed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has responsibility under the law to lower Medicare reimbursement to hospitals based on quality measures — moving from "fee-for-service" to "pay-for-quality." This is done not only to improve the quality of care to patients, but also to increase savings and decrease unfavorable clinical outcomes.