On November 22, 2016, CMS published its annual list of quality and efficiency measures under consideration for adoption through the rulemaking process.  CMS is considering approximately 100 measures for incorporation into approximately 20 different quality and other payment programs covering a variety of care settings, including hospitals, clinician practices, and dialysis facilities.   

CMS states that 39 percent of the measures are outcome measures and that an increased number of measures were submitted for consideration by specialty societies. 

CMS is collaborating with the National Quality Forum (NQF) to obtain input from multiple stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, commercial payors, and purchasers.  NQF will engage in a two-month review of the potential measures and instructs the public to submit comments through December 2, 2016 at 6:00 ET.

CMS’s blog post announcing the proposed measures is available here, with the full list of measures available here.