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Posting of Draft Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative Quality Measures for Public Comment

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently working on developing quality strategy for the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative. Interested organizations have expressed to CMS interest in learning more about the quality performance measures that will be part of the quality strategy for the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative. We are releasing a draft list of recommended quality measures for public comment from February 24, 2014 to March 14, 2014 at 5:00pm EST. Please visit the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative web page, Additional Information section, to access the draft recommendation for quality measures to be considered in the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative. 

Medicare for end stage renal failure- sorry too many acronyms just to understand

The Comprehensive ESRD Care initiative was designed to identify, test, and evaluate new ways to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Through the Comprehensive ESRD Care initiative, CMS will partner with health care providers and suppliers to test the effectiveness of a new payment and service delivery model in providing beneficiaries with patient-centered, high-quality care.