The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), helps public and private providers work on building a better way to deliver health care for Medicare Beneficiaries through accountability and public disclosure. The system helps deliver improved care, while helping to reduce health care spending. CMS aims to deliver consistent high-quality care, promote efficient outcomes in the health care system, and ensure that health insurance remains affordable for the millions of Americans seeking and receiving coverage. Rewarding the delivery services, implementing initiatives to reduce provider burdens, and employing state-of-the-art technologies to assure that program integrity is kept at a high standard. With this commitment CMS enhances partnerships
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Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families, employers, government, and communities. Improve the health of Americans by supporting proven interventions within communities to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health, and deliver higher-quality care. To advance its three aims, the National Quality Strategy identified six priorities: Making care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care; Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as partners in their care; Promoting effective communication and coordination of care; Promoting the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease; Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living; and Making quality care more affordable for individuals, families, employers, governments, and communities by developing and spreading new health care delivery …show more content…
The program strengthens should emphasize the technical assistance for performance measurement and quality. With these changes it will allow the program to improve quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries as they go through more than one health care settings over a period of time. It should emphasize on technical assistance for each provider setting. Instructions should be set in how to collect and interpret data used for internal quality improvement. Stakeholders who have an interest in quality measures and reporting of performance by providers. CMS will work with provider organizations, consumer groups, accreditation organizations, payers, purchasers, other federal agencies, and other stakeholders to increase the availability of measures and performance reporting. Congress and CMS recommendations state there should be other responsibilities in place to handle complaints and appeals of Medicare beneficiaries, as well as case reviews. In each state there should no responsibility for handling beneficiary complaints, appeals, and case reviews for payment or other services, which they should consolidate into regional or national contracts to efficiently handle
Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families, employers, government, and communities. Improve the health of Americans by supporting proven interventions within communities to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health, and deliver higher-quality care. To advance its three aims, the National Quality Strategy identified six priorities: Making care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care; Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as partners in their care; Promoting effective communication and coordination of care; Promoting the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease; Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living; and Making quality care more affordable for individuals, families, employers, governments, and communities by developing and spreading new health care delivery …show more content…
The program strengthens should emphasize the technical assistance for performance measurement and quality. With these changes it will allow the program to improve quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries as they go through more than one health care settings over a period of time. It should emphasize on technical assistance for each provider setting. Instructions should be set in how to collect and interpret data used for internal quality improvement. Stakeholders who have an interest in quality measures and reporting of performance by providers. CMS will work with provider organizations, consumer groups, accreditation organizations, payers, purchasers, other federal agencies, and other stakeholders to increase the availability of measures and performance reporting. Congress and CMS recommendations state there should be other responsibilities in place to handle complaints and appeals of Medicare beneficiaries, as well as case reviews. In each state there should no responsibility for handling beneficiary complaints, appeals, and case reviews for payment or other services, which they should consolidate into regional or national contracts to efficiently handle