Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care (Delmarva), one of its quality improvement organizations, has entered into subcontracts with four regional collaboratives, as part of the Better Quality Information to Improve Care for Medicare Beneficiaries (BQI) Project. These regional collaboratives will combine Medicare data with data from other insurers to produce information on the performance of health care providers for the benefit of Medicare beneficiaries. The following regional collaboratives have signed subcontracts with Delmarva: Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), Minnesota Community Measurement (MNCM), and Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ). The BQI Project is part of HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's Value-driven Health Care Initiative. The objective of the Initiative is to provide the public and providers with reliable and consistent measures of quality care. The subcontracts announced today will allow the BQI project to apply these principles to the Medicare program. CMS plans to announce two additional BQI subcontractors in the near future. Additional information on each regional collaborative as well as the Secretary's Value-driven Health Care Initiative is available at the HHS website, which you can access following the link below. Please find a press release regarding this announcement in the link below. | 
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