AXIOS February 29, 2024
Progress on many key health care quality measures was reversed during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new comprehensive federal review.
Why it matters: The report identified a “significant worsening” of patient safety measures and “persistent” health equity gaps for historically disadvantaged patients as COVID-19 overwhelmed the health care system.
Context: The federal government asks providers to report on a wide set of several hundred measures meant to assess health care quality.
- Before the pandemic, from 2016 to 2019, providers’ performance on more than half of quality metrics improved, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
- CMS relaxed reporting requirements when the pandemic hit, but the agency said it continued to collect enough data...
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