The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research and the American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance ImprovementTM, on June 10 released a set of measures assessing clinician performance in four areas of care for public comment. The set comprises 22 measures in rheumatoid arthritis care, palliative/end-of-life care, endoscopy and polyp surveillance, and chronic wound care. These measures may be used for quality improvement efforts, maintenance of certification programs, or pay-for-performance initiatives.
Clinician-level measures allow physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health professionals to improve performance in specialty areas.
All topic areas for public comment will be available for review on NCQA’s web site (www.ncqa.org) through July 1. All interested parties are invited to comment. Read the press release.
