CAHs Encouraged to Participate in MBQIP

The Federal Health Resources and Services Administration’s Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) recently kicked off a new CAH initiative, MBQIP, the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project. With more national attention on quality and reporting, this initiative takes a proactive and visionary approach to ensure CAHs are well-equipped and prepared to measure and demonstrate quality. Through this program, CAHs agree to give ORHP access to the data their hospital is submitting to CMS. This data will be aggregated to benchmark, demonstrate improvements, share best practices, and to generate reports to aid CAHs and states in quality improvement activities. There is information about MBQIP in this YouTube video from HRSA’s Senior Health Policy Advisor, Paul Moore. To join MBQIP, contact jd@coruralhealth.org or mm@coruralhealth.org.