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)