Healthcare Exec to CMS: Stop Micromanaging Quality
Having fewer quality metrics for plans to meet would work better.
WASHINGTON -- Medicare would work a lot better if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would stop micromanaging quality measurement, a healthcare executive said Friday.
"I would love for the administration to recognize that they need to stay 'high-level,'"Richard Gilfillan, MD, president and CEO of Trinity Health, a Livonia, Mich.-based healthcare network serving patients in 21 states, said at a briefing on the future of Medicare sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform. "Thirty-two [quality] metrics for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to meet is too much -- we should have five to seven patient-reported functional status outcomes."
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"Hold us accountable, sure," he continued, "but don't go describing 30 to 50 different ways that allow us to teach and perform to the test. Don't go deep -- let the marketplace be innovative in...
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