CMS Awards Funding For Medicare Quality Payment Program Measure Development To Seven Organizations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently awarded seven organizations new cooperative agreements to partner with them in developing, improving, updating, and/or expanding quality measures for Medicare’s Quality Payment Program. The Quality Payment Program gives provider organizations new tools and resources to help provide the best possible care to consumers adds a quality component to Medicare reimbursement—primarily through Advanced Alternative Payment models or the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.

The seven awardees are:

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
American Society for Clinical Pathology
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
American . . .