Fierce Healthcare September 23, 2019
A government watchdog found the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hasn’t done a good job of tracking quality program funding or whether quality measures meet goals.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report issued last week that CMS lacks complete information on how much funding it allocates for quality programs. The federal watchdog also questioned whether CMS has the procedures in place to ensure quality measurements meet objectives for the program.
“Taken together, these issues limit CMS’s ability to determine whether its allocation of resources and quality measurement decisions are optimal or whether changes are needed in its approach,” the GAO report said.
The failings could have broad consequences as private payers often adopt CMS quality...
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