We strongly encourage payers to reduce the number of required quality measures (QMs) and to align chosen QMs across all contracts. Selected measures should be common, comprehensible, and definitively ...

Prevention and Management of Osteoradionecrosis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy: ISOO-MASCC-ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights Oncology is a complex clinical ...

Physicians today have a love-hate relationship with quality performance measurement. We know we need quality measures, but measurement also can add administrative complexity. We want to make sure that ...

Less than 2 decades after publication of the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, quality ...

Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of healthcare quality. Physicians who fall short on quality measures now face financial penalties. But it might be quality measures, ...

Quality measurement has been around for nearly 2 decades and in that time measures have evolved and also proliferated to the point of placing considerable burden on physicians and health systems. New ...

The National Association of ACOs is the latest to respond to CMS electronic quality measure goals. Which challenge to tackle first in digital quality reporting? The National Association of ACOs ...

As someone who leads an integrated health care delivery system, this is a question I frequently find myself asking. The obvious answer, of course, is to develop measurements based on treatment ...

Medicare’s approach to quality assurance has significantly changed over the years. Starting with cost monitoring measures, it now ensures Medicare beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, and ...

The National Quality Forum‘s Board of Directors has approved for endorsement a measurement framework for individuals with multiple chronic conditions. The framework addresses the complex circumstances ...

Background We previously developed a digital quality measure (dQM) of emergency presentations (EPs) in colorectal cancer (CRC ...