Obesity is a major and growing public health concern, affecting more than two in five U.S. adults. Addressing this chronic disease requires coordinated efforts from healthcare professionals and policymakers; quality measurement plays a vital role in those efforts.

Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for "Measuring What Matters: Improving Obesity Management and Outcomes," an informative webinar about how quality measurement can drive improvements in obesity management and patient outcomes. 

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractor, Acumen, LLC, are seeking nominations for a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) that will provide input to re-specify the Breast Cancer Screening Recall Rate measure (OP-39) that is currently in use in the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (HOQR) program.

The nomination period opened today and interested parties are invited to submit nominations between now and June 10, 2025.

Battelle is accepting nominations for the Endorsement and Maintenance (E&M) and Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review (PRMR) committees until 11:59 PM (ET) on May 15, 2025. Use the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) nomination form to nominate yourself or others to one or more committees. Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to health care quality! 

Why Join a Committee? 
Participating in a committee offers you the opportunity to: 

CMS MERIT is now open for 2025 quality and efficiency candidate measure submissions!

Section 3014 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the CMS pre-rulemaking process for the selection of measures for adoption in select CMS Medicare quality programs. The pre-rulemaking process helps to support CMS’s goals to fill critical gaps in quality measurement and consider multi-interested party input on measure selection.