Summary:

The Quality Aligning Steering Committee (QASC) is a collaborative effort among existing quality alliances, government, physicians, nurses, hospitals, health insurers, consumers, accrediting agencies and foundations that works to improve the quality of health care across the United States. QASC works to ensure that quality measures are constructed and reported in a clear and consistent way that informs both consumer and employer decision-making, as well as the efforts of practitioners to improve. QASC will test approaches to combine summary information about providers from Medicare and private health plans, offering a more complete picture of providers than ever before. These provider-level measures will be available to regional collaborations to use in improving the quality of health care.

Grant Details:

Approved award: $8,724,232
Actual award: $7,368,080
Awarded on: Jul 12, 2007
Time frame: Jul 15, 2007 - Jun 30, 2010
Grant number: 60177

Grantee:

Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036-2103
(202) 797-6000
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Contact Information:

Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.A. (Project Director)
mmcclellan@brookings.edu
Phone: (202) 741-6567

National Program:

Strategy for the Quality Alliance Steering Committee