Joint Commission deletes ORYX standard

The Joint Commission will delete performance improvement standard PI.02.01.03 and its single element of performance on January 1, 2018. The standard had required facilities to receive a composite performance rate of 85% or higher on the ORYX accountability measures.

The accreditor announced that it was deleting the standard because it wasn’t possible for facilities to accurately calculate their composite rates.

So many chart-based measures were retired to maintain alignment with CMS that there weren’t enough left relevant to this requirement. Also, since hospitals can submit data in several different ways, it threw off the composite rate calculations.

The measure had been suspended since 2015.