CMS on Thursday announced plans to make public reports on physician performance by combining Medicare data with information from private insurers, Healthcare IT News reports.
The agency said that the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care will manage the effort, which will be part of the CMS Better Quality Information to Improve Care for Medicare Beneficiaries Project, through subcontracts with:
- Indiana Health Information Exchange;
- Massachusetts Health Quality Partners;
- Minnesota Community Measurement; and
- Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality.
CMS soon plans to announce two more subcontractors (Manos,
Healthcare IT News, 2/16).
The project is intended to provide performance data to physicians to help them boost the quality of care they deliver to Medicare beneficiaries, as well as offer physician performance data to Medicare beneficiaries to help them select providers,
United Press International reports.
CMS will use quality measures adopted by the AQA -- an alliance of health care providers, health plans, senior groups, employers and unions -- to rate physicians (
United Press International, 2/15).