Caravan Health Selected by CMS as Awardee of the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractor
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services selected Caravan Health as a Prime awardee of the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractor. This designation will allow NQIICs to bid on Task Orders over the next five years.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 13, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services selected Caravan Health as a Prime awardee of the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractor. This designation will allow NQIICs to bid on Task Orders over the next five years. As a Prime NQIIC awardee partnering with other Quality Improvement contractors under the new CMS Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract mechanism to support quality improvement efforts, each NQIIC may serve as:
- Quality Improvement Experts
- Facilitators/change agents for healthcare transformation by achieving bold aims at a high value.
- Innovators of quality improvement
As a NQIIC awardee, Caravan Health has demonstrated healthcare quality improvement expertise. Services supported by some of the NQIIC awardees may include:
- Provide direct technical assistance in specific areas of healthcare quality improvement (e.g., patient safety, opioid misuse, nursing home quality, etc.).
- Seek and gain commitments from patients, providers and stakeholders to achieve aims.
- Use a Human Centered Design that involves teaming with patient and family members to improve healthcare processes and outcomes.
- Focused on helping providers and healthcare organizations to achieve quantitative results for improved outcomes, lower costs, better care, less provider burden, greater transparency and more.
- Supporting a diverse array of organizations and populations, including: rural providers, vulnerable beneficiaries, clinical practices, hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities and more.
- Support providers in efficient use of Health Information Technology and interoperability.
- Serve as backbone organizations to form and engage Community Coalitions.
- Convene and support Learning and Action Networks (LANs).
About Caravan Health
Caravan Health is the national leader of successful accountable care and population health programs for community health systems. Caravan Health works with more than 250 health systems, 14,000 providers and more than 1,000,000 patient lives to drive quality, financial benefits and strong physician relationships in accountable care organizations. For more information visit http://www.CaravanHealth.com.
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