CMS selects ECRI Institute for NQIIC designation

Editor's Note

The ECRI Institute on June 20 announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had awarded it with the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC) designation.

With this designation and partnering with other quality improvement contractors under the new CMS Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quanity (IDIQ) contract mechanism to support quality improvement efforts, the ECRI Institute may serve as:

• Quality improvement experts
• Facilitators/change agents for healthcare transformation
• Innovators of quality improvement.

As a NQIIC awardee, the ECRI Institute has demonstrated healthcare quality improvement expertise, the announcement says.