Medicare has made it a priority to develop and use measures of health care quality that address key aspects of care while minimizing the data reporting burden on providers, but according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), it is not always clear that Medicare’s measures address its priorities. Recommendations are made to ensure Medicare’s priorities drive its quality measurement activities.
The report can be accessed at https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/701512.pdf.