CMS Awards 7 Agreements For Performance Measure Development For Medicare’s Quality Payment Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded seven contracts to develop performance measures for the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP). The new QPP measure development focuses on seven specialty gap areas—orthopedic surgery, pathology, radiology, mental health and substance use, oncology, palliative medicine, and emergency medicine.

The seven awardees are working on four types of measure structures: outcome measures such as consumer-reported outcome and functional status measures; consumer experience measures; care coordination measures; and measures of appropriate use of services. The awardees, and their gap focus, are as follows:

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc . . .