What role do the six regional Better Quality Information for Medicare Beneficiaries (BQI) project pilot communities play in this initiative? Are employers required to participate?
Currently, the BQI project is being implemented in six regional communities around the country. In these communities, employers, health insurance plans, and in some cases Medicaid programs and providers have formed collaboratives through which they have been combining their claims data or clinical information to provide consistent measures of the quality of healthcare services. Through the BQI project, CMS will allow the private data to be aggregated with Medicare claims data to produce more accurate, comprehensive measures of the quality of services at the provider level. This process is necessary to enable data to be aggregated effectively while ensuring the privacy and security of the information. Provider quality information based on this all-payer data will be made available to Medicare beneficiaries over internet web sites. The quality information will allow Medicare beneficiaries to get a better picture of the value of their healthcare purchases.
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