How BMI screening & follow-up plan burdens PCPs without decreasing obesity

CMS proposed new MIPS core measures to standardize reporting across MVPs, removal of the high‑priority/outcome reporting requirement, and scoring adjustments (including 0 points for unreported MIPS score measures in many cases and application of defined 'topped out' benchmarks).

CMS proposed extending MIPS CQM collection and incentives to ACOs, introducing a Medicare eCQM collection type with flat benchmarks, allowing exclusion of certain ACO participant TINs for specified circumstances and requiring submissions to represent at least 95% of assigned beneficiaries after exclusions, and revising scoring policies where measures are excluded or lack benchmarks.

Quality of care is compared across accountable entities, including hospitals, provider groups, and insurance plans, using standardized quality measures. However, observed variations in quality measure performance might be the result of chance sampling or measurement errors. Contains functions for estimating the reliability of unadjusted and risk-standardized quality measures.

The Impossible Mission of Quantifying Medication Compliance

Rhetoric vs Reality in "Controlling Blood Pressure" Quality Measure