The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on a proposed hospital quality measure for antipsychotic use in older patients in the inpatient setting.
CMS has contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to develop, electronically specify and maintain process and structural clinical quality measures for CMS hospital quality programs, according to the notice. The contract name is Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Process and Structural Measure Development and Maintenance.
The goal of this project is to develop electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for use by providers in CMS quality reporting programs. In conjunction with developing new eCQMs, the project is also tasked to re-engineer existing chart- or claims-based measures as eCQMs.
"We aim to understand the scope of antipsychotic use, the potential for quality improvement opportunities, and the possible unintended consequences of implementing an antipsychotic measure in the acute inpatient hospital setting," the notice reads.
Stakeholders can submit comments until May 15.
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