Health insurance, blood cancer, and outcomes: a literature review

QUALITY MEASUREMENT in federal health care programs has been around since at least 2007, when CMS introduced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for providers caring for Medicare benefi ciaries.The program continued to evolve, and it eventually became part of CMS' Merit-Based Incentive System (MIPS), CMS' fi rst attempt to integrate several diff erent incentive-based programs under one umbrella, including PQRS and meaningful use. 1 The goal of MIPS is to optimize patient care by utilizing fi nancial incentives to encourage providers to deliver high-quality, cost-effi cient care.