Industry groups tell a Senate committee that federal health care quality measures for patients with chronic conditions should reduce burdens on providers, and also address underuse – as well as overuse – of medical technologies. Meanwhile, CMS and private insurers released their first set of core quality measures as a basis for payments to ACOs and other fee-for-service alternatives.
Device firms and surgical societies told the Senate Finance Committee to avoid quality measures that result in duplicative burdens for busy doctors, and also to ensure that measures guard against underuse of medical technologies just as much as overuse.
Industry and medical society groups were answering a recent call for comments on a “Bipartisan Chronic Care Working Group Policy...