The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) pre-rulemaking public comment period is open through January 12, 2016, at 6:00pm ET. This year’s pre-rulemaking period considers approximately 130 measures for use in 16 federal health programs, about 60 of which are proposed for use in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) program legislated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).

The draft recommendations are based on recent pre-rulemaking meetings led by the Coordinating Committee, with extensive analysis from the MAP hospital workgroup, clinician workgroup, and post-acute and long-term care workgroup. The MAP Coordinating Committee will review and finalize the workgroup’s recommendations on January 26 and 27, 2016.

Established in 2011, MAP includes more than 150 healthcare leaders and experts from nearly 90 private- and public-sector organizations committed to improving healthcare quality. Stakeholders include consumers, purchasers, employers, health plans, clinicians and providers, communities and states, suppliers, and federal agency liaisons. MAP also provides input to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about core measures to assess the quality of care for children and adults covered by Medicaid, and the ten million Americans enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. MAP also provides input to HHS about core measures to assess the quality of care for children and adults covered by Medicaid, and the ten million Americans enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.

For more information, please contact measureapplications@qualityforum.org.