The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) recently released a new report, Maximizing the Value of Measurement, that recommends significant improvements to measure sets used in federal programs. Specifically, MAP has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services consider the future removal of 51 of 250 measures currently used in seven federal healthcare value-based purchasing, public reporting and other programs.
MAP also provided recommendations for improving measure sets used in nine additional federal programs. MAP guidance on future removal of measures includes:
- ESRD Quality Incentive Program: four measures suggested for removal; 18 current measures
- PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting Program: four measures suggested for removal; 17 current measures
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program: two measures suggested for removal; 15 current measures
- Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program: seven measures suggested for removal; 20 current measures
- Outpatient Quality Reporting Program: 13 measures suggested for removal; 29 current measures
- Inpatient Quality Reporting Program: six measures suggested for removal; 62 current measures, and
- Home Health Quality Reporting Program: 15 measures suggested for removal; 79 current measures.
More detailed information can be found on NQF’s website.
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