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New date. New theme. Same dedicated commitment to quality. The 2025 CMS Quality Conference will be on July 1-2, 2025.Join us as Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS Administrator, leads our mission to “Make America Healthy: Improving Health Outcomes Through Prevention, Quality, and Safety.”Stay tuned! Registration (…
The CMS Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System is currently doing research on electronic measures. We are looking for quality staff/directors and IT staff who would be willing to talk about their experiences with data collection and submissions for the eCQMs. We are also interested in hearing your…
On August 4, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to update fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS).To view the…
Provides several opportunities for input on eCQM development and updates through public calls for measures, comments on measures under development, technical expert panels, and public comments
The CMS Measures Management System (MMS) Hub is a resource providing information about the MMS, guidance for measure developers (content previously found in the Blueprint), and quality measure-related news and events. It includes information on measure development, measure implementation, measure…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, which includes policies for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for the 2026 performance year (PY) and beyond. This rule will be published on November 5,…
The CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Implementation Guides (IGs) are based on the Health Level Seven International® QRDA IGs. The CMS QRDA Category I IG is used for hospital CMS quality reporting programs. The CMS QRDA Category III IG is used for eligible clinician CMS…
The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System includes troubleshooting functionality in the test portion of the HQR System, such as checking for valid submission period dates and providing measure outcome information. Submitters can perform all functions for validation of CMS QRDA Category I files in…
