N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-d: Commissioner's workgroup

* § 2999-d. Commissioner's workgroup. 1. The commissioner shall,

within ninety days of the effective date of this title, convene and

chair, directly or through a designee or designees, a workgroup

including but not necessarily limited to representatives of statewide

and regional health care provider associations, health care plan

associations and conferences, hospital representatives, consumers, labor

and self-insured employers. The commissioner shall consider

recommendations and criteria developed by the workgroup in making

determinations under this title.

2. The workgroup shall seek consensus on clinical measures and

measurement criteria necessary and appropriate to achieve improvement in

quality performance by providers in delivering health care services;

further, it shall develop metrics to be utilized by demonstration

projects selected pursuant to the provisions of this title which will,

when implemented:

(a) promote the use of best practices through the development of

broadly agreed upon evidence-based performance measures;

(b) improve care coordination through the participation of multiple

stakeholders;

(c) institute long-term quality improvement;

(d) encourage appropriate utilization of health care services and

improve health outcomes through the use of evidence-based medicine

practice guidelines; and

(e) promote self-management by consumers through the implementation of

patient-specific metrics and resource supports for consumers.

3. In its recommendations, the workgroup shall give consideration to

the appropriate number of participants in each demonstration project as

well as the geographic boundaries of each demonstration project.

* NB Expired April 1, 2011