Meaningful Measures
CMS Awards Funding for Development of Palliative Care, Other Quality Measures
On September 21 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded seven organizations new cooperative agreements to partner in developing, improving, updating, or expanding quality measures for Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP). These cooperative agreements, authorized under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), represent the first funding initiative supporting public-private […]
Read MoreCMS Promotes Regulatory Reform and “Meaningful Measures” in Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma emphasized her agency’s push to reduce the health care regulatory burden and promote policy and technical innovation during a Monday speech at the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN) Fall Summit in Arlington, Virginia. Ms. Verma called her agency’s new approach to quality […]
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