Specifications for the Quality Measures and the Dialysis Facility Compare Measures
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Kidney and Epidemiology Cost Center (UM-KECC), develop, maintain, and update the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Measures for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under the Quality Measure Development and Maintenance contract with CMS. These include the Clinical Performance Measures (CPM), the Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) Measures, and the development of new quality measures that will be implemented beginning in 2012. Several of CMS’s current and new Quality Measures will be used by CMS in the CMS ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP). In addition, Arbor Research and UM-KECC work with CMS’s Measures Management System (MMS) in the development, evaluation, and reporting of the current ESRD Quality Measures.

For the detailed measure specifications for the measures included in the Quality Incentive Program (QIP) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), and Final Rule, please visit the DialysisReports.org web site at: http://www.dialysisreports.org/ESRDMeasures.aspx.