Recommended Quality Measures/Measure Areas
As health plans, policymakers, and other stakeholders develop interventions to improve health care delivery for people with serious illness, quality measures can incentivize providers to improve care and evaluate impact. This document provides recommended quality measures for a palliative care or serious illness initiative, along with high-level implementation considerations, such as what can be collected from claims versus provider reporting.
In a recent article in Harvard Public Health, C-TAC advisors Marian Grant and Torrie Fields, were featured for their state palliative care work. For the estimated 150 million Americans with a chronic health condition, and the two-thirds of those with two or more conditions, palliative care can provide critical support. The article notes, “A growing body of research…
Research on the effectiveness of palliative care services has long been financed by philanthropy. A recent vote by the senate has developed a sustainable funding mechanism for this type of research that will be made available through the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This federal funding appropriated totals $12.5M and is expected to be awarded to researchers to expand the…
The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 brought with it sweeping changes to American health care. Healthcare exchanges, Medicaid expansion, and nondiscrimination for preexisting conditions are only a few of the new policies that signaled a new chapter in American health care. Among those changes were policies regarding pediatric concurrent care. Under Section 2302 of the Affordable…