The OIG recently issued a report that examined the extent to which Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) duplicate other CMS hospital quality improvement efforts, particularly Hospital Engagement Networks (HENs) and the Community-Based Care Transitions Program (CCTP). Based on a questionnaire sent to a random sample of 410 Medicare hospitals, more than half of responding hospitals reported that that they participated with QIOs on quality improvement projects in 2013, but the majority also worked with other federally-funded and non-federally-funded entities on the same topics. The OIG observes that the overlap in the CMS quality improvement efforts raises concerns about duplication of efforts and complicates attributing quality improvements to any one effort. The OIG therefore recommends that CMS: (1) take steps to coordinate and reduce overlap between the QIO program and CMS’s other quality improvement efforts; and (2) determine the relative contribution of each of its quality improvement efforts. CMS concurred with the recommendations, which were set forth in the report, “Quality Improvement Organizations Provide Support to More Than Half of Hospitals but Overlap with Other Quality Improvement Programs.”