Quality Improvement Organization (QIQ) (Health Care) Law and Legal Definition
Quality improvement organization (QIQ) is an association of practicing doctors and other health care experts, who work to improve the quality of health care in communities across America. QIQ monitors appropriateness, effectiveness, and quality of care provided to Medicare patients. They work under the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and are represented nationally by the American Health Quality Association.
QIOs shares information about best practices with physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and others. They work together with health care providers and provide assistance for improvement. They review complaints about the quality of care given by skilled nursing facilities, inpatient hospitals, hospital outpatient departments, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospital emergency rooms, private fee-for-service plans, ambulatory surgical centers, and fast-track termination decisions in comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities.
Legal Definition list
- Quality Improvement Organization (QIQ) (Health Care)
- Quality Control
- Quality Circles
- Quality Audit [Food and Drugs]
- Quality Assurance, in Licensing (Trademark)
- Quality Manual [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Quality of Defendant's Goods (Trademark)
- Quality of Life
- Quality Policy [Food and Drugs]
- Quality Systems Certification Program [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Quando Quod Ago Non Valet Ut Ago, Valeat Quantum Valere Potest
Related Legal Terms
- 527 Organizations
- Accelerated Benefits (Health Care)
- Acceptable Quality Level [Agricultural Marketing Service]
- Accumulation Value (Health Care)
- Acquisition and Improvement Loan [Veterans' Relief]
- Actual Age (Health Care)
- Actuarial Equivalent (Health Care)
- Acute Care
- Additional Health Services
- Adequate Parental Care
