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Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential

Released:: March 9, 2006
Type:: Consensus Report
Topic(s):: Health Services, Coverage, and Access, Quality and Patient Safety
Activity:: Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs
Board(s):: Board on Health Care Services

Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential examines the program in detail and proposes a major restructuring of it so that it can become an important national resource integral to strategies of performance measurement, public reporting, and payment incentives.

The QIO program should focus on offering, through its infrastructure in each state, technical assistance to providers and practitioners aimed at building their capacity for quality improvement.

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Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare analyzes the promise and risks of instituting a pay-for-performance program within Medicare to encourage a more effective health care system.
Released: September 20, 2006
Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement The first report in the Pathways series, Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement, focuses on the selection of measures to support the quality improvement efforts of a diverse set of stakeholders, and on the creation of a common infrastructure for guiding and managing a consistent set of such measures nationally and regionally.
Released: December 1, 2005

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Report Release: Rewarding Provider Performance - Aligning Incentives in Medicare Thursday, September 21, 2006 (11:00 AM)

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