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AHA.ORG | PAGE 12 OF 162025 ADVOCACY AGENDA

Quality

� Advocate for streamlined Conditions of Participation and other regulatory standards that promote safe, high-quality care without increasing administrative burden.

� Pursue strategies and support public policies aimed at improving maternal and child health access and outcomes.

� Enhance the effectiveness and lower the burden of the Physician Quality Payment Program by advocating for more accurate and meaningful cost measures and appropriately pacing the implementation of new program approaches, such as the Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathways.

� Promote approaches to account for health-related social needs in quality measurement and value programs where appropriate to ensure appropriate performance comparisons and payment adjustments.

� Advocate for measures that matter in advancing quality and patient safety and that help hospitals and health systems identify important opportunities to ensure all patients achieve the best possible outcomes for their conditions. Work to ensure federal, state, and payer performance assessments use these same measures in order to reduce measurement burden.

� Advocate to discontinue measures that either fail to provide meaningful, credible information to advance patient quality or safety or have administrative burdens that outweigh their value to improving care.

� Promote meaningful changes in federal funding of research to improve the delivery of safe, effective care, the ef!ciency of care, the effective use of care teams, and the leadership and governance processes most likely to yield improvements in patient outcomes and experience of care.

ADVANCING QUALITY AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM RESILIENCY