The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is launching a new “Meaningful Measures” initiative that will seek to reduce the regulatory burden on health care providers.

According to a CMS news release, Meaningful Measures

…will involve only assessing those core issues that are most vital to providing high-quality care and improving patient outcomes.  The agency aims to focus on outcome-based measures going forward, as opposed to trying to micromanage processes..

In a speech at the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, CMS administrator Seema Verma explained that this project will include moving the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in a new direction that promotes greater flexibility and patient engagement and implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in ways that minimize the burden and cost of complying with the law’s requirements.

To learn more about this new CMS initiative, see this CMS news release or go here to read Ms. Verma’s remarks.