Quality Measures
Replaces the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).
Learn Quality Measures Requirements
As defined by CMS, “this performance category measures health care processes, outcomes, and patient experiences of their care”. Requirements may change each Performance Year (PY) due to policy changes. Find Quality Measures requirements for each performance year of the program here.
Choosing Quality Measures
Explore and choose your Quality Measures on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website here.
Explore Quality Measures Resources
Explore CMS Resource Library for the most up to date information concerning Quality. As displayed in the screen shot below, you can easily find files related to Quality by utilizing the search filters to narrow down your search by Performance Year, QPP Reporting Track, Performance Category and/or Resource Type.
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MIPS Data Validation Criteria
This file contains important and pertinent information relating to suggested documentation for each MIPS performance category. As displayed in the screen shot below, from the CMS Resource Library, you can easily find this file by selecting the performance year you are looking for and entering “MIPS Data Validation Criteria” in the key word search.
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Initiatives
- Cardiovascular Health
- Care Coordination
- Community Based Sepsis
- Diabetes Self-Management
- Drug Safety
- Immunization
- MAPPP
- Nursing Home Quality
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- Nursing Home Quality (NY)
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- QAPI Self-Assessment
- CASPER Data
- Eliminating Inappropriate Antipsychotic Medication Use
- Clinical Quality Measures (QM)
- Composite Measure Score
- NHQCC Collaborative I Kick-Off
- NHQCC Collaborative I Outcomes Congress
- QI/QAPI
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- Using a System's Approach to Quality & Performance Improvement
- Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NHQCC) Learning
- Engaging Staff in Individualized Care
- QAPI Self-Assessment and Related Resources
- QAPI In Action
- Quality Improvement (QI) Resources
- Quality Improvement Strategies
- Steps to QAPI
- Elements for Framing QAPI in Nursing Homes
- Clinical Topics
- Resources
- Consumers
- Nursing Home Quality (DC)
- Nursing Home Quality (SC)
- Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
- Quality Payment Program
- Transforming End of Life
Contact
New York
Rebecca Van Vorst, MSPH
Director, Health Care Quality Improvement
IPRO
518-320-3508
South Carolina
Jennifer Boyd, RHIA
Manager, Provider QI
The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME)
803-212-7551
Washington, DC
Kasey Fields, BS
Quality Improvement Consultant
Qlarant
410-290-2102