CMS Seeks Public Comments on Stroke Outcomes Measures
Comments Accepted through Wednesday, August 18 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (YNHHSC/CORE) to develop two hospital-level, risk-standardized outcomes measures: 1. 30-day, all-cause mortality following an ischemic stroke hospitalization; and 2. 30-day all-cause readmission following an ischemic stroke hospitalization. These measures will serve as indicators of quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries. They are complementary measures intended to assess different domains of hospital quality. To date, CMS and YNHHSC/CORE has convened a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) and developed draft documents that define specifications for each measure. More information about the TEP as well as the measure specifications is available online at the web address below. CMS now requests stakeholder review and public comment on the measure. Comments must be received by Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST. All measure comments are welcome, but we are particularly interested in feedback in the following areas: * Cohort definitions * Inclusion/exclusion criteria * Risk-adjustment strategy To be considered, comments must be forwarded electronically via the website below or via email to [email protected]. Please include your name, credentials, and email address in your message, and indicate whether you are commenting as an individual or as a representative on behalf of an organization. We also ask that you indicate whether your measure is general to all measures or specific to either measure. To review the measure in more detail, please visit CMS' Measures Management System online at: https://www.cms.gov/MMS/17_CallforPublicComment.asp. A summary of all the comments received will be posted on CMS' Measures Management System website about four weeks after the public comment period closes. Thank you for your support and participation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Lis tservs.pdf) . If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
