The Committee on Performance and Outcomes Measurement (CPOM) is tasked with creating meaningful measures for anesthesiologists to use in quality programs and, more specifically, for use in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program (QPP). The life cycle of a quality measure is built on a defensible measure development process, including (but not limited to) identifying a performance gap, conducting feasibility testing, and implementing the measure for use. The most important aspect to keep the measure alive in any program is ensuring its adoption and reporting by a significant number of physicians and groups. Without adoption and measure data, it becomes nearly impossible to create a case to CMS that this measure is valuable to the physicians who do use the measure.
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is built on CMS assessing and paying physicians and their groups for the delivery of quality and cost-effective...