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Quality Measures Development Task Force
Committee Mission – To support the Quality and Practice domain using empirical evidence and prioritizing patient quality and safety through quality measures.
Committee Goals: To develop quality measures that support quality improvement initiatives, meet regulatory requirements, and reimbursement.
Description of Current Year Programs & Activities
- Identify new quality measure topic for the CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program.
- Develop the data collection process for measure testing.
- Maintain the current measure (QPP147: Correlation with existing imaging studies for all patients undergoing bone scintigraphy) in the MIPS program for 2024.
- Create a MIPS educational webinar for SNMMI members.
- Provide comments for the CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule.
- Provide comments to other CMS proposals related to measure development and implementation.
Meeting Minutes:
Committee Members
| Mehdi Djekidel, MD | Co-Chairperson |
| Christian T. Schmitt, MD | Co-Chairperson |
| Ashley N. Brown, B.S., CNMT | Committee Member |
| Farrokh Dehdashti, MD, FSNMMI | Committee Member |
| Irfan Farukhi, MD, ABNM | Committee Member |
| Cedric Franklin, ARRT R.N. | Committee Member |
| Lyndsi M. Hay, MS, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Sun-Joo Jang | Committee Member |
| Kanchan Kulkarni, MD | Committee Member |
| Hollie Anne Anne Lai, MD | Committee Member |
| Rustain L. Morgan, MD | Committee Member |
| Michael A. Morris, MD, MS | Committee Member |
| Nghi C. Nguyen, MD, PhD | Committee Member |
| Dustin Osborne, PhD | Committee Member |
| Ann M. Voslar, MHA/Ed, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Xiaofei Wang, MD | Committee Member |
| Chloee Wendorf, MHA, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Julia K. Trigger, MS | Liaison |