The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like public feedback on 41 measures under consideration for quality reporting and value-based programs before the measures are formally proposed through the rulemaking process.
Categories of quality measures for hospitals receiving payment through Medicare, including CMS-designated Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are:
- Post-acute care/long-term care measures
- Clinician Measures
- Hospital Measures
For example, CMS would like early feedback on including the measure Median Time to Pain Medication for Patients with a Diagnosis of Sickly Cell Disease with Vaso-Occlusive Episode in the Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Program, and the measure Proportion of Patients who Died from Cancer Admitted to Hospice for less than 3 Days in the Hospital Quality Reporting Program.
CMS will hold three listening sessions, one for each of these categories, December 17-19. Register to make live comments or ask questions during these sessions:
Click on the topic, below to learn more and register for the listening session:
- Tuesday, December 17, 1:00 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET: Clinician Listening Session
- Wednesday, December 18, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET: Hospital Listening Session
- Thursday, December 19, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: Post-Acute Care/Long-term Care (PAC/LTC) Listening Sessions
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