Becker's Healthcare February 2, 2023
CMS is looking to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures across all its programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
The agency said in its 2024 advance notice Feb. 1 that aligning measures across programs and private payers “will reduce provider burden while also improving the effectiveness of quality.” CMS operates more than 20 programs, each with its own set of quality measures that may or may not align with one another.
“The universal foundation is part of CMS’s efforts to implement the vision outlined in our National Quality Strategy and is fundamental to achieving several of the agency’s quality and value-based care goals,” six CMS leaders wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine Feb. 1.
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