NEWS
2018 Annual Provider Dinner, |
Alignment and Simplification of Quality Measures CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment, for the first time, on core measures primarily for physician quality programs. Physicians and other clinicians must currently report multiple quality measures to different entities. Measure requirements are often not aligned among payers, which has resulted in confusion and complexity for reporting providers. To address this problem, CMS, commercial plans, Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans, physicians and other care provider organizations worked together through to identify core sets of quality measures that payers have committed to using for reporting as soon as feasible. The core measures are: Accountable Care Organizations, Patient Centered Medical Homes, and Primary Care, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, HIV and Hepatitis C, Medical Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Orthopedics. Visit: https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2016-Fact-sheets-items/2016-02-16.html |
