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Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential

Released:
March 9, 2006
Type:
Consensus Report
Topics:
Health Services, Coverage, and Access, Quality and Patient Safety
Activity:
Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs
Board:
Board on Health Care Services

Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential examines the program in detail and proposes a major restructuring of it so that it can become an important national resource integral to strategies of performance measurement, public reporting, and payment incentives.

The QIO program should focus on offering, through its infrastructure in each state, technical assistance to providers and practitioners aimed at building their capacity for quality improvement.

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