Why Partner with CEP America?
CEP America provides strong quality performance

Since our inception, CEP America has been uniquely successful at attracting the highest caliber emergency physicians. And because we understand that providing high-quality, cost-efficient emergency care depends on more than simply hiring the best, we also provide our physicians with the education and system support necessary to make measurable quality improvements. Our focus on delivering strong quality performance includes:

  • Early CMS Participation
    CEP America started providing biannual updates to all of our sites on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) performance indicators as soon as that program was adopted by the federal government. In addition, we began participation in the physician-specific CMS PI Program equivalent, the CMS Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI, formerly PVRP) in January 2007, months before the official program rollout date.
  • Seamless Implementation of Regulation Compliance
    CEP America also provides and requires Partnership-wide education and compliance with EMTALA, HIPAA, and TJC regulations. Thus, when TJC developed its new medication reconciliation standards, CEP America medical directors were already prepared to provide expert assistance to our hospitals on best practice compliance with this regulation, making implementation a seamless “business as usual” event for our emergency departments.
  • CME for Improving Performance
    CEP America is the first Institute of Medical Quality (IMQ), CME-granting institution to link performance improvement to physician CME. We offer all of our Partners the ability to obtain CME for improving performance on sepsis, congestive heart failure, and the CMS indicators. We chose these clinical issues because congestive heart failure is the number-one cause of lost hospital revenue, and because goal-directed sepsis therapy has been shown to substantially decrease inpatient ICU days and mortality. Our goal is to ensure that our quality programs not only provide our physicians with cutting-edge knowledge, but also complement the needs of our client hospitals.