ASCP Seeks Test Sites for Measure Development Project

Publication Date: Oct 1, 2019

ASCP is seeking hospitals, laboratories and vendor organizations to serve as potential test sites to further develop seven pathology-specific quality measures. ASCP is leading this cooperative team effort, which is supported by a $2.1 million grant the Society received in 2018 from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The test sites will support efforts to determine the feasibility, implementation, reliability, and validity of ASCP’s registry-based measures that are being retooled into electronic clinical quality measures for use in the Quality Payment Program.

The benefits of serving as a test site include additional opportunities to improve patient care; enhanced positioning for future measure implementation should the tested measure(s) be included in national quality measure programs; and improved opportunities for more closely aligned interaction with the electronic health record vendor and collaboration with internal laboratory and clinical champions and Information Technology staff.

To learn more about ASCP’s planned engagement with test sites click here. Organizations interested in becoming a test site should send an email to npqr@ascp.org.

Disclaimer: The project described was supported by Funding Opportunity Number 1V1CMS331635-01-00 from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The contents provided are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HHS or any of its agencies.

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