In a letter to acting Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Andy Slavitt, TMA outlines several steps CMS can take to improve the reporting of clinical quality measures (CQMs).
For starters, CMS should sunset the CQM reporting requirement because it is inferior to and duplicates Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) requirements. Further, CMS should validate that CQM reporting actually improves patient care and outcomes before requiring such arduous programs that TMA says are frustrating and senseless.
