Susan Morse
Association calls on healthcare to more effectively share date and give clinicians the tools they need to improve care.
NCQA uses HEDIS scores to rate plans, a performance measure used by more than 90 percent of health insurers.
In two separate moves on one day, ACO stakeholders ask CMS to keep upside-only risk model, while 29 others from Next Gen ACO Coalition want to make risk more predictable.
CMS has made it clear that it wants health systems to share the risk of cost and outcomes.
Affected supplies include consumables, pacemakers, computers and MRI machines.
The antitrust concern over the Medicare prescription drug plans is holding up approval of the $69 billion deal.
Payers and providers can track, in real time, the status of claims submissions and remittances.
The next expected approval is for CVS Health's $69 billion acquisition of Aetna.
Proposed rule on removing such mandates as "re-approval" is expected to save healthcare facilities $1.12 billion per year.
Projects include the Human Cell Atlas and Biohub, with the goal of curing all diseases.