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HCR Quality & Patient Safety

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Quality and Patient Safety

October 11, 2011

Quality and Patient Safety relates to the development of Medicare hospital value based purchasing, payment policies regarding health care-acquired conditions, payment policies regarding hospital readmissions, and development of additional quality measures and public reporting.

CHA News Article

MAP Releases Draft Quality Measure Recommendations
Comments due Jan. 28

January 15, 2013 David Perrott, MD, DDS Alyssa Keefe

The Measure Application Partnership (MAP) has released its draft pre-rulemaking recommendations on performance measures under consideration for federal quality reporting and payment programs. MAP reviewed more than 500 measures submitted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for twenty federal programs that reimburse providers, including clinicians, hospitals and post-acute care facilities. In its draft report, MAP supports the immediate application of 141 measures for federal programs and the phased removal of 64 measures currently in use. After careful review, MAP voted not to support 165 measures under consideration and supported the direction, further development and testing of 166 additional measures. CHA participated in the MAP process and will prepare comments that are due Jan. 28. The comment period is open to the public, but comments can be submitted only by registered users of the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) website. As required by ACA, MAP must release its final report to HHS by Feb. 1.

CHA News Article

HHS Releases Quality Measures Considered for Future Rulemaking
MAP is convened by the National Quality Forum

December 4, 2012 Alyssa Keefe

As required by the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has provided the Measures Application Project (MAP) a list of more than 500 measures being considered for 2013 federal rulemaking. The MAP is convened by the National Quality Forum to provide input on measure use for public reporting and federal performance-based payment programs. CHA will participate in meetings scheduled by the MAP workgroups ahead of the Feb. 1, 2013 deadline to report recommendations to HHS. For more information on the MAP, visit www.qualityforum.org/map. The list of measures being considered is attached.

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HHS Announces $1 Billion in Grants

November 15, 2011 Anne McLeod

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Health Care Innovation Challenge, a program to provide $1 billion in grants for innovation in workforce development and deployment. The money will be awarded to organizations that propose projects to improve the quality of care for patients enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, while lowering costs.

Individual grants will range from $1 million to $30 million over three years to providers, payers, local government, public-private partnerships and multi-payer collaboratives.

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