Becker's Healthcare February 26, 2020
CMS Administrator Seema Verma unveiled a new quality strategy that aims to streamline reporting and reduce physician burnout at the agency’s 2020 Quality Conference in Baltimore.
Five things to know:
1. The reimagined strategy is based on a framework CMS launched in April 2019 to promote safety and quality in nursing homes.
“This framework … was so successful that we decided to replicate it across the agency and in all our programs in 2020 and beyond,” Ms. Verma said in a Feb. 25 speech at the CMS conference.
2. The new quality strategy will focus on four main pillars:
- Establish clear and reasonable quality expectations through government standards and quality measures.
- Improve oversight and enforcement of quality standards to...
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