Dive Brief: “CMS wants to roll various Medicare quality improvement programs including Quality Improvement Networks and Organizations (QIN-QIOs), End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks and Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks (HIINs) into a single contract worth up to $25 billion.”
“The program, dubbed Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors, will award multiple organizations Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quality contracts…”
Dive Insight: “This new initiative ultimately seeks to reduce what the industry widely considers to be an overwhelming quality reporting burden, while providing a means of better evaluating projects. But effort also has potential to cause some disruptions for groups already involved in Medicare quality improvement…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS to consolidate Medicare quality reporting programs – By Tony Abraham, May 18, 2018. Healthcare Dive.
