The National Quality Forum conducted a two-year trial demonstrating the feasibility of incorporating social risk factors into healthcare performance measures. Normally, NQF only allows measures to be ...

Making the Case for Adjusting Quality Measures for Social Risk Factors Henry Ford Health System-led report says adjustments would enhance quality. DETROIT (April 5, 2021) - A new analysis by a team of ...

Rick Pollack, executive vice president of the American Hospital Association, sent a letter to the National Quality Forum and CMS, urging the agencies to adopt recommendations to adjust quality ...

The individual and small group market risk adjustment system relies on a set of regression models that assign risk scores to enrollees based on their plan metal level and their individual ...

On April 30, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the rest of the final 2022 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Rule. The 473-page final rule was accompanied by a ...