EHR Intelligence October 30, 2017
Initiative draws on stakeholder feedback to focus care quality measures on core issues and high-priority areas of care.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced a new approach to care quality metrics that will only involve evaluating core issues most vital to high-quality care delivery and improved patient outcomes called Meaningful Measures.
Verma announced the new Meaningful Measures initiative at the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN) Fall Summit in Arlington, Virginia. The initiative marks an effort by CMS to focus on outcomes-based measures instead of micromanaging care delivery.
“We all know it: Clinicians and hospitals have to report an array of measures to different payers,” said Verma. “There are many steps involved in submitting them, taking time away from...
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