Experts tell Senate healthcare quality metrics are ’abysmal’

Quality experts, including the CEO of the National Quality Forum and a former CMS administrator, cautioned Senate Finance Committee members earlier this week that healthcare quality measures must be better coordinated to be effective.

The nation's efforts to measure healthcare quality have improved in recent years, but that isn't saying much considering how much stakeholders are still in the dark, they said. Providers, employers, and patients are increasingly befuddled by more than 1,100 measures used for scoring and payment just in the Medicare program alone, with little understanding of which ones, if any, really drive better outcomes.

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Source: HealthLeaders