January 2026

Nomination Period Open for TEP for Excess Days in Acute Care (EDAC) Measure Development

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 develop a new measure using administrative claims data to assess the Excess Days in Acute Care (EDAC) following an outpatient procedure or surgery for use in the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (Hospital OQR), Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting (ASCQR), and Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting (REHQR) programs.

Now Open: Public Comment Period for Draft CMS FHIR® Digital Quality Measures (dQMs)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now accepting public feedback on draft