CMS National Quality Strategy
CMS National Quality Strategy
CMS National Quality Strategy
CMS is committed to a high-value healthcare system that promotes quality, safe, person-centered care for all individuals.
The CMS National Quality Strategy is an ambitious long-term initiative that aims to promote the highest quality outcomes and safest care for every individual and their journey across the continuum of care. From home or community-based settings to hospital to post-acute care, and across payer types, including Traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Marketplace coverage, CMS uses its quality levers to improve care and healthcare outcomes for all.
CMS is working to evolve the CMS National Quality Strategy to reflect the Agency’s quality priorities to increase the health and well-being of individuals, while also meeting the care goals of patients and their caregivers and families.
Implementing the CMS National Quality Strategy
The success of a CMS National Quality Strategy relies on coordination, innovative thinking, and collaboration across all entities. A unified approach brings us all closer to the health care system we envision for every individual. Improving health care quality and safety requires a multifaceted approach, using all the available levers available to CMS:
- value-based programs and models;
- performance feedback and reporting;
- quality measurement;
- data collection and exchange;
- innovation, demonstrations, and models;
- communications and engagement;
- standards and oversight;
- quality improvement learning and technical assistance;
- and coverage and payment.
One lever central to the Strategy unifying Traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid & Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage, Marketplace plans, and CMS Innovation Center models and demonstrations is quality measurement. The Meaningful Measures Initiative, active since 2017, remains key to shaping the entire ecosystem of quality measures that drive value-based care. Working as a one of many initiatives and activities under the CMS National Quality Strategy, Meaningful Measures 2.0 promotes innovation and modernization of all aspects of quality measurement, addressing a wide variety of settings, stakeholders, and measurement requirements. Additionally, the “Universal Foundation” of quality measures further focuses provider attention, reduces burden, prioritizes development of interoperable, digital quality measures, allows for cross- comparisons across programs, and helps identify measurement gaps by identifying a set of key quality measures to use throughout CMS programs.
Send feedback and questions to CMS by emailing QualityStrategy@cms.hhs.gov.
Archive
- National Quality Strategy Fact Sheet (PDF) – (2022 – 2024)
- Advancing Health Care Safety for All (PDF) – (2022 – 2024)
- Quality in Motion: Acting on the CMS National Quality Strategy (PDF) – (2022 – 2024)
- CMS Quality Strategy – (2012-2016) (PDF)
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