Healthcare Finance News March 2, 2018
The funding is to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality payment program of MACRA.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is providing up to $30 million in grant funding to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality payment program of MACRA.
CMS will provide funding and technical assistance in these cooperative agreements to address measure gaps.
[Also: CMS streamlines quality reporting for MACRA]
The gap areas include, but are not limited to, orthopedic surgery, pathology, radiology, mental health and substance use conditions, oncology, palliative care, and emergency medicine.
Initial priority areas are for clinical care, safety, care coordination, patient and caregiver experience, population health...