CAH FLEX MBQIP Initiative

A new project led by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) called MBQIP (Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project) is a three-year initiative that will create a national database for benchmarking purposes and to inform the President as well as other federal officials on how well CAHs perform in quality improvement. MBQIP will allow ORHP to gain early access to data already being submitted to CMS Hospital Compare. ORHP will aggregate CAH quality data for national benchmarking that will include rural appropriate and relevant measures. With budget concerns at an all-time high, CRHC urges all CAHs to engage and commit by submitting data to Hospital Compare and by agreeing to grant ORHP access to that data. Please visit the MBQIP video posted on YouTube for a three-minute video that explains these efforts. To participate, complete consent forms, which are available here. For more information contact mm@coruralhealth.org or jd@coruralhealth.org.