MDS Alert

Collaborative effort yields helpful resource for implementing QAPI.

If you’re struggling with your Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) efforts, take heart — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has a new tool that can make your job much easier.

On Feb. 20, CMS published a Process Tool Framework, which contains “process tools” to implement and apply the basic principles of QAPI. The tool crosswalks each CMS Process Tool to the QAPI Five Elements. Check out the abbreviated version below and access the full hyperlinked PDF version at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/QAPI/Downloads/ProcessToolFramework.pdf.