Tag: Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting recommendations for new specialty specific measure sets, or adjustments to existing measure sets for 2021 performance year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS). Recommen...
Finalized in the CY 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established a new protocol for quality measures impacted by changes in ICD-10 coding. This new protocol went into effect on October 1, 2019. ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will require the display of the five-star Quality Rating System available nationwide for health plans offered on the Health Insurance Exchanges beginning in the 2020 Open Enrollment Period. This is...
On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2020 Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Other Changes to Part B Payment Policies (CMS-1715-P), which includes proposals relat...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Innovation Center will be hosting an office hour on August 6, 2019, at 12 pm ET on Primary Care First model payments. During this session, the Primary Care First model team will answer your questions relate...
The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN) launched the first chapter in a new educational video series covering select content from the Roadmap for Driving High Performance in Alternative Payment Models (APM). Click here to...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) updates the Child and Adult Core Sets of quality measures annually. The Core Sets are important sources of information for CMS to assess the quality of services beneficiaries receive and improve Medicaid an...
On June 24, President Trump signed the executive order “Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Health Care to Put Patients First.” The executive order, which is consistent with previous Administration policies and priorities, focuse...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uploaded new materials to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library:
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On May 31, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the 2019 Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) Annual Report, which describes progress in developing clinician quality measures to support the Quality Payment Program (QPP)...
CMS is hosting two webinars that will provide an overview of quality measures, with an emphasis on how these measures are impacting health care and how the public can get involved in the development of quality measures. Each of the webinars will be o...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uploaded new materials to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library:
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications for the 2020 reporting period for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, and the 2020 performance period for Elig...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is requesting nominations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Improvement Activities (IA) Technical Expert Panel (TEP). HealthInsight, a CMS a subcontractor on this project, is con...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun the annual update of Medicare payment policies. FY 2020 proposed regulations for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRF), Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (IPF) and Hospice were recentl...
Facility-based Measurement The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a webinar on April 18 from 1 to 2 pm ET to provide information about facility-based measurement for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in ...
The data submission period for the 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) closed on April 2, 2019. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently reviewing all submitted data. If data was submitted through the Quality Pay...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted episode two of their recently created podcast. This episode highlights some of the key perspectives from participants at the 2019 CMS Quality Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The 2019 CMS ...
Title: MIPS Data Submission for Year 2 (2018) of the Quality Payment Program Office Hours – Session 2 Date: March 19, 2019 Time: 2 to 3 pm ET Registration Link: https://engage.v...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) invites eligible clinicians, professional associations and medical associations to submit quality measures for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is soliciting recommendations on new measure sets for the quality performance category and/or revisions to existing specialty measure sets for the quality performance category for program year 2020...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar on January 15 from 2 to 3 pm ET on the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Incentive Program (QIP). The ESRD QIP changes the way CMS pays for the treatment of patients with E...
On December 30, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Measures Under Consideration (MUC) list for 2018. The pre-rulemaking process requires that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) make publicly avai...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is soliciting comments on two inpatient quality measures they are adapting for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS):
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it has open-sourced the Quality Payment Program (QPP) code responsible for calculating quality measures from Medicare claims data submitted by eligible clinicians via Quality Data ...
On September 21, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the selection of seven applicants to receive cooperative agreement awards through the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Funding Opportuni...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced the appointment of seven new members to the Governing Board of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The newly appointed members are Kara Ayers, PhD, Ass...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) released the following rural health report: A Core Set of Rural-Relevant Measures and Improving Access to Care. This report highlights the work of the NQF-convened Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) workgroup rega...
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016 (NDAA 2016) directed the Department of Defense (DOD) to align its measures of health care quality used in the Military Health System (MHS) to improve beneficiary experience and reduce variat...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a number of webinars on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) this week. Promoting Interoperability Category Webinar June 12, 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern This webinar...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a webinar that will assist with the development of Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) measures for future Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance periods. On the ...
On May 3, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2018 Measure Development Plan (MDP) Annual Report which describes progress in developing clinician quality measures to support the Quality Payment Program (QPP). This a...
On April 12, 2018, CMS announced that it would extend the deadline to May 30, 2018, for a funding opportunity for entities to develop, improve, update or expand quality measures for the Quality Payment Program. In its release, CMS indicated that it...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a two-part webinar series that covers an introduction to quality measures, overview of the measure development process, how the public can get involved, and the new Meaningful Measures i...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures Study. CMS is conducting this study to:
There are a number of upcoming key deadlines and milestones for the 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). For the 2017 MIPS Performance Period and 2019 MIPS Payment Adjustment Year, MIPS eligible clinicians can earn payment adjustments of...
CMS is seeking applicants to participate in a study on the burdens associated with reporting quality measures. MIPS eligible clinicians participating in MIPS as individuals or groups are invited to apply. A limited number of clinicians who are not el...
CMS has posted 2017 scores for clinicians who submitted Quality data via claims for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Clinicians will be able to view their performance scores through the MIPS data submission feature on the CM...
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Annual Call for Measures and Activities Webinar
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that eligible clinicians participating in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) can begin submitting their 2017 performance data using a new data submission system on the QPP website. Eligib...
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As required by statute, on November 30, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a list of quality measures that are under consideration for Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs. Of the 32 measures...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted new resources on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Center. These resources include:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) to adapt claims-based hospital measures to assess the quality of ca...
On June 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the Measure Development Plan (MDP) 2017 Annual Report. The annual publication of the MDP is mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). It...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the 2017 annual update for Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs). These updated eCQMs are fully specified and may be used to electronically report 2018 clinical quality measure data...
On March 21, 2017, the American Medical Association and 86 state and specialty medical societies submitted a letter requesting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reduce the administrative burden and provide for hardship exemptions...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the submission period of the Annual Call for Measures and Activities for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) track of the Quality Payment Program. As described in the C...
CMS is hosting a conference call on Tuesday, January 24 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET on how to complete the final reporting period for the legacy Medicare quality reporting programs and transitioning to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). &n...
CMS is currently soliciting nominations for technical expert panel members to support the CMS Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) project. The MDP is mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), which also requir...
CMS and ONC Release RFI on Quality Reporting. Download the pdf. View Public Comments....
