Vizient Selected for CMS' Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Vizient, Inc. as a Prime awardee of the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC). This designation will allow NQIICs to bid on task orders over the next five years.

As a Prime NQIIC awardee partnering with other Quality Improvement contractors under the new CMS Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract mechanism to support quality improvement efforts, each NQIIC may serve as:

• Quality improvement experts
• Facilitators/change agents for health care transformation by achieving bold aims at a high value
• Innovators of quality improvement

As an NQIIC awardee, Vizient has demonstrated health care quality improvement expertise. Services supported by some of the NQIIC awardees may include:

• Provide direct technical assistance in specific areas of healthcare quality improvement (e.g., patient safety, opioid misuse, nursing home quality, etc.).
• Seek and gain commitments from patients, providers and stakeholders to achieve aims.
• Use a human centered design that involves teaming with patient and family members to improve health care processes and outcomes.
• Focus on helping providers and health care organizations to achieve quantitative results for improved outcomes, lower costs, better care, less provider burden, greater transparency and more.
• Support a diverse array of organizations and populations, including: rural providers, vulnerable beneficiaries, clinical practices, hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities and more.
• Support providers in efficient use of Health Information Technology and interoperability.
• Serve as backbone organizations to form and engage Community Coalitions.
• Convene and support Learning and Action Networks (LANs).

About Vizient, Inc.

Vizient, Inc. provides solutions and services that improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance for more than 50% of the nation's acute care providers, which includes 95% of the nation's academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $100 billion in annual purchasing volume, to improve patient outcomes and lower costs. Vizient has earned a World's Most Ethical Company designation from the Ethisphere Institute every year since its inception. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com.

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