"Core Quality Measures Collaborative"

CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) recently released seven sets of physician clinical quality measures as part of a “Core Quality Measures Collaborative” intended to align quality measures among payers and reduce the reporting burden on providers. Through the Collaborative, CMS, various commercial plans, Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans, purchasers, and provider and consumer organizations are working together to identify core sets of quality measures that payers have committed to use for quality reporting as soon as feasible. The core measures announced February 17 are the first release from the Collaborative, which intends to add and update the measure sets over time. The initial measures are in the following seven measure sets:
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