What are we committing to regarding the selection and use of standardized quality measures for health care providers?
At the present time, the standardized quality measures most fully developed are those endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF) and adopted by the AQA (a multi-stakeholder group focused on physician quality measures) or the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA). For the benefit of their employees, employers are encouraged to request that the health insurance plans, third party administrators, providers, and others with which they contract use and report standard performance measures for quality that are adopted by the AQA or the HQA. To the extent employers wish to measure the quality of care in additional areas not addressed by these sets of measures, they are encouraged to use measures endorsed by the NQF or approved by other national collaborations that include broad representation of providers and other key healthcare stakeholders. The current process, whereby the private and public sectors rely on the NQF to endorse measures and broad-based stakeholder groups to determine which ones
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