- Posted
- October 17, 2014
Ohio firm to build CMS quality data hub
Columbus-based Battelle has been awarded a four-year, $16 million federal contract to develop a framework for analyzing quality data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Source: “Battelle wins $16M federal contract for Obamacare quality data hub,” (Columbus Business First, Oct. 14, 2014).
Under its contract with CMS, Battelle will take over and make changes to the central IT infrastructure CMS uses to develop, maintain and analyze the data it’s collecting. Parikh called it “the hub in a big wheel of quality measures.”
CMS and other federal agencies for years have been collecting data on various measures, and under the ACA, Medicare is using more of those data points to determine a portion of how hospitals and doctors are paid.