The Quality Strategy

The Quality Initiative uses a multi-prong approach to support, provide incentives, and drive systems and facilities – and the clinicians and professionals working in those settings – toward superior care through:

• Ongoing regulation and enforcement conducted by state survey agencies and CMS

• New professional and consumer hospital quality information on the CMS Web site, the Medicare Web site and at 1-800-MEDICARE

• The testing of rewards for superior performance on certain measures of quality

• Continual, community-based quality improvement programs through our Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs)

• Collaboration and partnership to leverage knowledge and resources