Re: NQF Measure Endorsement Process
Dear Dr. Cassel:
The undersigned organizations are writing to share our feedback regarding recent improvements
and changes to the National Quality Forum (NQF) measure endorsement process. We applaud
NQF for continually updating its process for quality measure evaluation and endorsement and
have been encouraged by a number of improvements. However, we believe there are still
deficiencies that need to be resolved, particularly around endorsement review timelines, the
implementation of updated evaluation criteria, measure testing and eMeasure requirements.
In this current healthcare environment where payers and purchasers are increasingly emphasizing
paying for value over volume, we believe that the NQF has an important role to play in ensuring
that the portfolio of endorsed measures includes a sufficient number of meaningful measures for
all physician specialties to report, and that those measures contribute to improving the quality of
care physicians are providing to patients. This is even more pressing as the Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun to remove the first generation of measures from its
physician quality programs, which widens the gap of available measures for specialties in the
CMS measure portfolio.
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