Healthcare Innovation April 3, 2024
New Quality Pathway initiative may require new measures to address gaps in validated measures addressing a model’s quality goals
The U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is launching a new “Quality Pathway” to elevate patient-centered quality goals in the design and evaluation of alternative payment models. These efforts have a particular emphasis on patient-reported outcomes.
In a New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst Commentary, CMS’ Susannah M. Bernheim, Noemi Rudolph, Jacob K. Quinton, Julia Driessen, Purva Rawal, and Elizabeth Fowler, said that the Quality Pathway will align model design around quality goals; elevate outcomes and experience measures, particularly patient-reported outcomes; and ensure that evaluations have the ability to assess the impact of models on primary quality goals.
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