CMS is committed to a valuable health care system that promotes quality, safe, and person-centered care for all individuals.
CMS National Quality Strategy is an ambitious long-term initiative aimed at promoting the highest quality outcomes and safest care across all individuals and continuous care. From home or community-based environments to hospitals, post-acute, and across payer types, including traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (Tip), and market coverage, CMS uses high-quality levers to improve care and healthcare outcomes for everyone.
CMS is committed to the evolution of CMS' national quality strategy, reflecting the institution's quality priorities and achieving care goals for patients, their caregivers and families to enhance individual health and well-being.
Implementation of CMS' national quality strategy
The success of CMS' national quality strategy relies on coordination, innovative thinking and collaboration across all entities. A unified approach brings us closer to the health care system we envision for every individual. To improve the quality and safety of healthcare, a multifaceted approach is required, using all available levers available to CMS.
Value-based programs and models, performance feedback and reporting, quality measurement, data collection and exchange, innovation, demonstrations, models, communication and engagement, standards and monitoring, learning and technical assistance in quality improvement, and coverage and payment.
One lever at the heart of traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid & Children's Health Insurance Program (Tip) coverage, market planning, CMS Innovation Center model and demonstration unified strategies is quality measurement. Meaningful countermeasure initiativesActive since 2017 has been key to shaping the entire ecosystem of quality measurements that promote value-based care. Working as one of many initiatives and activities under the CMS National Quality Strategy, Meaning 2.0 promotes innovation and modernization of all aspects of quality measurement, addressing a variety of settings, stakeholders and measurement requirements. moreover,”Universal Foundation“It focuses on the “provider attention” of quality measurements, reducing the burden, prioritizing the development of interoperable digital quality measurements, enabling intercomparison between programs, and helps identify measurement gaps by identifying a set of key quality measurements to be used throughout the CMS program.
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