Modern Healthcare November 28, 2017
A month after CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the new “meaningful measures” quality reporting framework as a way to ease physicians’ regulatory burden, providers remained confused about the initiative’s goals.
Rather than replacing existing quality reporting programs, meaningful measures will be applied to them, so the CMS can make sure those measures align with the CMS’ core tenets of quality reporting, said Dr. Pierre Yong, director of the CMS’ quality measurement and value-based incentives group, in a webinar Tuesday.
When she announced the project, Verma posed meaningful measures as a way to reduce the reporting burden on providers. But clinicians who called into the agency’s webinar expressed concern that the framework wouldn’t actually reduce their reporting burden, especially as some...
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