Healthcare DIVE September 24, 2018
Les Masterson

Dive Brief:

  • CMS awarded seven organizations with cooperative agreements that will involve them in a project to improve and expand quality measures for Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP), which enters its third year in 2019.

  • The organizations in the project include a hospital, specialty groups, colleges and an employer coalition. They will focus on orthopedic surgery, pathology, radiology, mental health and substance use, oncology and palliative care.

  • The funding program aligns with the agency’s Meaningful Measures initiative, which highlights quality measurement and improvement priorities. The collaboration will “fill gaps in the QPP measure set,” CMS said.
Dive Insight:

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, MACRA, Medicare, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider
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