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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers moving toward digital quality measures, the CAP is advocating to ensure those efforts remain meaningful and sustainable for pathologists.
The CAP recently submitted comments in response to a request from the Partnership for Quality Measurement, CMS' consensus-based entity for measure development.
- The request sought input on the benefits, challenges, and resource needs around digital quality measures.
Zoom in: The CMS has been moving toward the creation of these measures in payment programs for several years.
- While digital quality measures have the potential to reduce the burden of measure reporting, the CAP is concerned that CMS’ current requirements will place the measures out of reach for pathologists.
What we're saying: Our response highlights the benefits of digital quality measures in lowering the burden of quality measure reporting and the potential to increase interoperability.
- However, the CAP says strict requirements for codes could hinder efforts to capture meaningful data.
- The significance of the critical work of pathology can’t be captured in existing code sets, and nuance could be lost.
- The CAP stresses that the development of quality measures should remain with clinical experts—it shouldn’t be assumed that digital quality measures have a lower bar for development.
What's next: The CAP will continue to work with the partnership to ensure that pathologists have the opportunity to benefit from digital quality measures as they’re developed.