Medicare, Health Plans Agree on Quality Measures
CMS, the America’s Health Insurance Plans, and other provider groups announced last week a new set of quality measurements meant to make reporting requirements for doctors and other health care providers more consistent and efficient. Currently, individual payers utilize their own measurements, this agreement would assign core measures in seven areas. The new measures would ease the reporting complexity for clinicians, insurers are also hoping to bring down costs. To read the agreement, click here.