CMS Unveils Quality Measurement Development Plan Draft

On December 18, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a draft proposal for developing quality measures for Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and certain Medicare alternative payment models (APMs). The purpose of the proposal is to highlight known measurement and performance gaps and recommend approaches to close those gaps through development, use, and refinement of quality measures. Actual quality measures for inclusion will be solicited through CMS’s annual Call for Measures. Strategic goals of the draft proposal for developing quality measures include:

Multi-payer applicability – CMS will utilize the Measure Applications Partnership to . . .