Fierce Health Technology November 20, 2020
John D’Amore

Many payers likely breathed a sigh of relief earlier this year when the federal government announced that it was suspending data collection and reporting requirements for a number of high-profile quality-measurement programs.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services declared in April that it would halt data collection for programs such as the Qualified Health Plan Enrollee Survey, Quality Improvement Strategy, and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS).

HEDIS is a comprehensive set of standardized performance measures intended to give health insurance buyers the information they need to make reliable comparisons between competing health plans. HEDIS measures include data points such as rates of colorectal cancer screenings, use of high-risk medications in the elderly...

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