How will the private sector interact with the Federal government to coordinate the selection of value-driven health care measures?
Currently, the private sector and the Federal government rely heavily on the NQF-endorsement process to identify potentially useful quality measures. To promote effective adoption and use of these measures without undue administrative burdens on providers, broad-based national stakeholder groups, such as the AQA and the HQA (in which the Federal government is involved) have adopted subsets of NQF-endorsed measures for hospital and physician measurement efforts. In the case of the HQA, CMS is using those measures to meet the Congressional directive for hospitals to report on a set of quality measures to receive their full annual update payments. This process has helped to unify both Federal and private sector provider quality measurement efforts. For example, because the data on the “Hospital Compare” Web site is all-payer data on widely accepted hospital clinical quality measures, it can be used by all employers to measure the quality of care across hospitals. CMS plans to continue to
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