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Nomination Period Open for MACRA Wave 6 Clinician Expert Workgroups

Posted:
Thu, 05/18/2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractor, Acumen, LLC, are seeking nominations for Wave 6 of the Clinician Expert Workgroups that will provide input on the development of 2 episode-based cost measures for potential use in the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The nomination period opened on May 12, and interested clinicians are invited to submit nominations between now and June 2, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

Acumen will convene the following Clinician Expert Workgroups (“workgroups”) in June 2023:

May Edition of the MMS Newsletter

Posted:
Tue, 05/16/2023

"Measures Management and You" is a monthly bulletin about quality measurement resources and opportunities. Subscribe to receive more Measures Management System (MMS) news in your inbox.

Public Comment Opportunity: Home and Community Based Services Measures Development, Endorsement, Maintenance, and Alignment: State-Level All-Cause Emergency Department Utilization for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Posted:
Fri, 05/05/2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the Lewin Group to develop the State-Level All-Cause Emergency Department Utilization for Medicaid Beneficiaries measure.  The contract name is Home and Community Based Services Measures Development, Endorsement, Maintenance, and  

Public Comment Opportunity: 30-Day Risk-Standardized All-Cause Emergency Department (ED) Visit, Without Readmission, Following Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Discharge

Posted:
Mon, 05/01/2023

Seeking public comments on a new quality measure—30-Day Risk-Standardized All-Cause Emergency Department (ED) Visit, Without Readmission, Following Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Discharge

On behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mathematica has developed and tested a new

Public Comment Opportunity: Home and Community Based Services Measures Development, Endorsement, Maintenance, and Alignment

Posted:
Mon, 04/24/2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the Lewin Group to develop  Discharge from Inpatient Facilities to Home-Based Settings for Medicaid Participants measure.

New Updates on the eCQI Resource Center: Updates to Value Set and Harmonization content

Posted:
Thu, 04/20/2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center Value Set Information.

CMS Measures Inventory Tool (CMIT) 2.6 Now Available

Posted:
Tue, 03/28/2023
The latest version of the CMS Measures Inventory Tool (CMIT) is now available!

March Edition of the MMS Newsletter

Posted:
Tue, 03/21/2023
"Measures Management and You" is a monthly bulletin about quality measurement resources and opportunities. 

February Edition of the MMS Newsletter

Posted:
Wed, 02/15/2023
"Measures Management and You" is a monthly bulletin about quality measurement resources and opportunities. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2023 Pre-Rulemaking Season Kick-off Webinar

Posted:
Fri, 02/10/2023

Join CMS for the 2023 Pre-Rulemaking Season Kick-off Webinar to learn what’s new with this year’s pre-rulemaking process!

New Reports: Harnessing Measurement and Technology to Promote Equity, Reduce Burden

Posted:
Thu, 02/02/2023
The Core Quality Measures Collaborative (CQMC) released three new reports seeking to reduce disparities through measures of health equity, burden through digital measurement, and fragmentation through the voluntary alignment of measurement processes across payers.

CMS Measures Under Consideration 2023 Call for Measures

Posted:
Sun, 01/29/2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Register for CMS Health Equity Webinar

Posted:
Wed, 01/18/2023

CMS is pleased to invite the public to attend the upcoming webinar: “From Data to Action: How CMS and its Stakeholders Are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare.” Join us for a discussion of the CMS Health

January Edition of the MMS Newsletter

Posted:
Wed, 01/18/2023

"Measures Management and You" is a monthly bulletin about quality measurement resources and opportunities. Subscribe to receive email updates from MMS. 

What’s New with the Measures Management System (MMS)

MIPS 2024 PY Call for Measures

Posted:
Mon, 01/16/2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is Soliciting Stakeholder Recommendations for Potential Consideration of New Specialty Measure Sets and/or Revisions to the Existing Specialty Measure Sets for the 2024 Performance Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). 

2022 MUC List & Pre-Rulemaking Resources Now Available

Posted:
Thu, 12/01/2022

To further align measure development and maintenance resources, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has moved the pre-rulemaking webpage on the CMS website to the CMS Measures Management System (MMS) Hub. 

The new MMS Hub Pre-Rulemaking webpage features information on

November Edition of "Measures Management and You" Now Available

Posted:
Wed, 11/16/2022

"Measures Management and You" is a monthly bulletin about quality measurement resources and opportunities. Click here to subscribe. 

Performance Period 2022 Eligible Clinician eCQM Webinar Recordings Available

Posted:
Thu, 06/16/2022
CMS developed and published webinar content from the Performance Period 2022 Eligible Clinician eCQM Education and Outreach Webinar Series. PDF slides and links to the webinar recordings are available to review on the eCQI Resource Center.

Revised eCQM Specification for CMS156, Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults

Posted:
Thu, 06/16/2022
CMS has revised the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specification for CMS156v11, Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults, for the 2023 reporting/performance period for Eligible Clinician programs.

Upcoming Events

MMS Information Session: “Putting the Test in Measure Testing: Addressing Common Challenges”

Event Start Date
Add to Calendar 2023-05-24 14:00:00 2023-05-24 15:00:00 MMS Information Session: “Putting the Test in Measure Testing: Addressing Common Challenges”

Please join CMS’s Measures Management System (MMS) team at 2 p.m. (ET) Wednesday, May 24 for the MMS Information Session, “Putting the Test in Measure Testing: Addressing Common Challenges.” Register today!

Presentation Objectives

Learn about common challenges measure developers might face during measure testing, such as: 

  • When to use Alpha vs. Beta testing, 
  • Trade-offs between validity and feasibility,
  • Managing limited sample sizes,
  • Collaborating with testing sites, and
  • Testing critical data elements.

Visit the MMS Hub website, mmshub.cms.gov, to learn more about measure testing and other stages of the measure lifecycle.

Presenter Organization: Battelle MMS Team

Register here. 

 Location The Measures Management System (MMS) noreply@battelle.org America/New_York public

Webinar: Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy on 6/22/2023

Event Start Date
Add to Calendar 2023-06-22 13:00:00 2023-06-22 14:00:00 Webinar: Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy on 6/22/2023

Please join the Battelle Measures Management System (MMS) team for a discussion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy, a long-term initiative that promotes quality outcomes, safety, equity, and accessibility for all individuals, especially for people in historically underserved and under-resourced communities. You are central to CMS’s person-centric approach, and we are excited to share how this strategy’s eight core goals and key milestones will drive equity, quality, safety, and interoperability across the continuum of care. There are two opportunities to attend “Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy”; please select the one that works best for your schedule!

  • Register here for the June 22 presentation. 
  • This presentation will be repeated on June 27 at 12:00 p.m. (ET) - Register here for that date.

Presenters

  • Michelle Schreiber, MD, is the Deputy Director of the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) and the Group Director for the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group (QMVIG).
  • Doug Jacobs, MD, is the Chief Transformation Officer at CMS, leading center-wide efforts to move the health care system toward value-based care, advance health equity, and promote delivery system transformation.

Please submit your National Quality Strategy questions to the Measures Management System team at MMSSupport@Battelle.org. 

 Location The Measures Management System (MMS) noreply@battelle.org America/New_York public

Webinar: Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy on 6/27/2023

Event Start Date
Add to Calendar 2023-06-27 12:00:00 2023-06-27 13:00:00 Webinar: Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy on 6/27/2023

Please join the Battelle Measures Management System (MMS) team for a discussion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy, a long-term initiative that promotes quality outcomes, safety, equity, and accessibility for all individuals, especially for people in historically underserved and under-resourced communities. You are central to CMS’s person-centric approach, and we are excited to share how this strategy’s eight core goals and key milestones will drive equity, quality, safety, and interoperability across the continuum of care. There are two opportunities to attend “Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy”; please select the one that works best for your schedule!

Register here for the June 27 presentation. 

Presenters

  • Michelle Schreiber, MD, is the Deputy Director of the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) and the Group Director for the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group (QMVIG).
  • Doug Jacobs, MD, is the Chief Transformation Officer at CMS, leading center-wide efforts to move the health care system toward value-based care, advance health equity, and promote delivery system transformation.

Please submit your National Quality Strategy questions to the Measures Management System team at MMSSupport@Battelle.org. 

 Location The Measures Management System (MMS) noreply@battelle.org America/New_York public