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.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with RTI and Abt Global (hereafter referred to as RTI and Abt) to support the development of interoperability measure(s) for use in the Post-Acute Care (PAC) Quality Reporting Programs (QRPs). The RTI’s contract name is, “Development, Maintenance, and Support for Quality Reporting and Value Based Purchasing Programs and Nursing Home Care Compare.” The contract number is 75FCMC18D0012, task order 75FCMC24F0121.

The “2024 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List”, an Excel file detailing all the measures and their

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently reviewed and refreshed the MMS Hub’s CMS Goals and Priorities content. This section provides an overview of CMS quality measurement strategies, measure development principles, and guidance on current value-based programs and health equity initiatives.