Abstract
Effective January 2024, the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the first time has included a nutrition-focused quality measure in the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program: the Global Malnutrition Composite Score (GMCS). The GMCS is an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) that hospitals can choose to report voluntarily to meet the requirements for IPPS IQR payments. The GMCS can help improve hospital malnutrition care and help advance hospital health equity goals. This conference report summarizes a panel discussion at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo in October 2023. During the panel, four health and nutrition experts described strategies for integrating the GMCS into hospital electronic health records (EHRs). They also outlined how GMCS data can be used to facilitate successful patient transitions to post-acute care through addressing food insecurity and other reasons for malnutrition. Such strategies can serve to help avoid preventable complications and readmissions, improve patient outcomes and health, and meet quality and health equity objectives, while helping reduce overall healthcare costs.
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