Medicare's quality improvement organization program : maximizing potential / Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs, Board on Health Care Services
A historical perspective and the current qio program -- Assessment of the QIO program: findings and conclusions -- Performance measurement, quality improvement, and other entities -- Improving quality and performance measurement by the QIO program -- CMS oversight of the operations and management of the QIO program -- Study approach -- Structure and finances -- Technical assistance for quality improvement -- Impact of technical assistance for quality improvement and knowledge transfer -- Evaluation of quality improvement achieved by the QIO program -- Beneficiary education and communications -- Protection of medicare beneficiaries and program integrity -- CMS oversight
