HealthIT Answers January 19, 2026
Three things CMS can do now to position accountable quality reporting for the future
As leaders move health care quality programs toward a technology-enabled future, accountable care organizations (ACOs) can play an integral role in piloting new initiatives, such as digital quality measures (dQMs), and evaluating the feasibility of approaches. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) must reassess the current approach for Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) that align Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) quality measures and reporting to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). This inaccurate comparison unfairly burdens providers and impedes progress towards population health.
As recently highlighted in Health Affairs, ACOs in MSSP are stuck in a complex web of fragmented data, opaque unattainable requirements,...
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