CMS, health insurers standardize quality measures

Editor's Note

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and major health insurance plans, in concert with physician groups and other stakeholders, on February 16 announced a new agreement to standardize measures of quality for physicians.

The agreement outlines seven core measure sets to be used as a basis for quality-based payments. The collaborative plans to add more measure sets and update the current sets over time.

The seven core sets are:

• Accountable Care Organizations, Patient Centered Medical Homes, and Primary Care
• Cardiology
• Gastroenterology
• HIV and Hepatitis C
• Medical oncology
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Orthopedics.

Date 2016-02-16 Title Core Quality Measures Collaborative Release Contact go.cms.gov/media Core Quality Measures Collaborative Release Background Over the past three years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has worked to align quality measures across public programs in order to support consistent high quality care for patients and reduce complexity and burden for clinicians in how they report on quality improvements.