RamaOnHealthcare October, 2016
HHS Should Set Priorities and Comprehensively Plan Its Efforts to Better Align Health Quality Measures. What GAO Found While the full extent of misalignment among health care quality measures is unknown, it can have adverse effects on providers and efforts to improve quality of care. Misalignment occurs when health care payers require providers to report on measures that focus on different quality issues or define the measures using different specifications. GAO identified three studies that provided some information on the extent of misalignment....