Acumen, LLC and Abt Associates Inc., contractors for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), support the development and maintenance of post-acute care and hospice quality measures. CMS refines and develops QRP measures to ensure that (a) Medicare beneficiaries and their caregivers have high-impact, meaningful performance data to assist in making informed healthcare decisions; and (b) providers have actionable information to guide performance improvement efforts without being overburdened by reporting requirements.
Acumen and Abt, which develop and refine quality measures for the Post-Acute Care (PAC) and Hospice Quality Reporting Programs (QRPs) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), are convening a technical expert panel (TEP) to evaluate the measurement sets across the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Home Health (HH), and Hospice settings, with a focus on identifying measurement gaps, and ensuring measures align with CMS program requirements and goals. CMS will use this to inform new measure development and maintenance of PAC and Hospice quality measures.
Selected nominees can expect to be contacted on an annual, or as needed, basis for up to five years. The TEP nomination period closes on October 11, 2023, at 4:00 PM CT. If you wish to nominate yourself or other individuals for consideration, please visit the web posting on the CMS Technical Expert Panels: Currently Accepting Nominations page for more information.
