The National Quality Forum appointed Chip Kahn as co-chair of its Measure Applications Partnership Coordinating Committee.
Here are three points:
1. Mr. Kahn is the president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals.
2. The other committee co-chair is Harold Pincus, MD, professor and vice chair of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City and director of quality and outcomes research at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
3. The Measure Applications Partnership focuses on recommending measures for CMS' pay-for-performance, public reporting and other programs before federal rulemaking commences.