AAFP November 28, 2017
CMS, AAFP Aim for Measure Alignment Across Payers.
CMS recently announced a new user-friendly resource that will give physicians and other health care stakeholders better visibility — and a better understanding — of the agency’s ever-expanding inventory of quality measures(www.cms.gov) used in various quality, reporting and payment programs.
The agency touts its new Measures Inventory Tool(cmit.cms.gov) as an interactive web-based application that increases transparency.
CMS Chief Medical Officer Kate Goodrich, M.D., writes in a Nov. 20 blog(blog.cms.gov) that she is “pleased to announce that CMS is deploying an innovative tool that provides all stakeholders improved visibility into the portfolio of CMS measures.”
She explains that the inventory tool provides a complete list of measures that are under development, have...