Healthcare Innovation February 2, 2023
In a New England Journal of Medicine article, CMS leaders say goal is to focus providers’ attention on measures that are meaningful for the health of broad segments of the population and reduce provider burden
Acknowledging that a lack of alignment across the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ quality programs has contributed to challenges for clinicians and health insurers, the leaders of several CMS centers are proposing a “Universal Foundation” of quality measures that will apply to as many CMS quality-rating and value-based care programs as possible.
Published Feb. 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the essay’s authors include Douglas B. Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H.; Michelle Schreiber, M.D.; Meena Seshamani, M.D., Ph.D.; Daniel Tsai, B.A.; Elizabeth Fowler, Ph.D.,...