core quality measures

Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance, News February 18, 2016

NPWF Applauds Alignment of Quality Measures

The National Partnership for Women & Families, which has worked for 45 years to improve health for women and families, applauded the unprecedented work to align quality measurement across health care payers – including commercial plans, Medicare and Medicaid – for its promise to drive better care and better use of health care resources.

Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance, Regulatory Issues, Value Based Reimbursement February 17, 2016

CMS Announces Alignment and Simplification of Quality Measures

CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans, as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment, for the first time, on core measures primarily for physician quality programs.