The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued quality measurement, resource use measurement, and value-based purchasing roadmaps for the traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program.
The roadmaps outline the activities that CMS has undertaken to implement value-driven health care, including summaries of the various projects to test the policy and concepts designed to provide high quality, affordable health care. They are also intended to provide information to policy makers about the demonstrations and pilot programs that are already underway and to articulate the overarching principles guiding further efforts.
“It is incumbent on us to use the lessons we’ve learned with many of the tools we have implemented to help the nation’s healthcare leaders as they look to improve the healthcare system in a time that’s even more critical because the projected rate of growth in healthcare costs is climbing at an unsustainable rate,” said CMS acting Administrator Kerry Weems.
Read the roadmaps.
