Department of Health and Human Services September 16, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice informs eligible health care groups of an opportunity to apply to participate in the Medicare Health Care Quality demonstration. The goal of the demonstration is to improve the quality of care and services delivered to Medicare beneficiaries through a major system redesign that fosters best practice guideline usage, continuous quality and patient safety improvement, shared decision making between providers and patients, and the delivery of culturally and ethnically appropriate care. This notice contains information on how to obtain the complete solicitation and supporting information. A competitive process will be used to select 8 to 12 health care organizations (that is, physician group practices, integrated delivery systems, and regional coalitions of physician group practices and integrated delivery systems) to participate in the 5-year demonstration. The application solicitation will be conducted in two phases.