The Alliance submitted comments to CMS on the CY 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System noting that no measures in the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting program are specific to wound care. The Alliance reminded CMS that there are 21 quality measures specific to the practice of wound care, fully programmed, as electronic clinical quality measures available within the U.S. Wound Registry Qualified Clinical Data Registry. Furthermore the Alliance expressed concerns on the flawed methodology CMS uses to calculate the payment for cellular and tissue-based products for wounds (CTPs, referred to in the policy as skin substitutes).

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