VBPmonitor February 23, 2016
Earlier this month, a joint health plan consortium released a set of quality measures intended to serve all payors. Covering primary care and certain high-expense specialties, the measures are intended to “reduce, refine, and relate” measures for a consistent and unified approach to promoting affordable quality healthcare. Andy Slavitt, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that “this agreement today will reduce unnecessary burden for physicians and accelerate the country’s movement to better quality.”
The Core Quality Measures Collaborative includes health plan representatives for an estimated 70 percent of covered patients across the U.S. Payor representatives on the Collaborative include CMS, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Aetna, Anthem, the Blue Care Network, Blue Cross Blue Shield...
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