Opportunity Information: Apply for CMS 1V1 18 002
The Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number CMS-1V1-18-002) is a discretionary funding program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It provides financial support through cooperative agreements for organizations to create new quality measures or to improve, update, expand, or otherwise strengthen existing quality measures that can be used within the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The central aim is to grow and refine the QPP measure portfolio so that it better reflects meaningful clinical quality, captures outcomes that matter to patients, and supports fair and useful performance assessment.
A key feature of this opportunity is that CMS specifically wants measure development to be led or supported by external, non-federal entities rather than being done only within CMS or other federal agencies. CMS highlights the value of outside organizations that bring practical, on-the-ground insight into clinical workflows, specialty-specific care, and patient priorities. The eligible pool is intentionally broad and includes groups such as clinical specialty societies, professional associations, patient advocacy organizations, universities and other educational institutions, independent research organizations, health systems, and similar entities with measure development capability or relevant expertise. The underlying idea is that organizations close to clinicians and patients can help ensure measures are not only technically sound, but also credible, relevant, and usable in real care settings.
The work supported by these cooperative agreements focuses on the full lifecycle of quality measure development and maintenance. That can include developing entirely new measures to fill gaps, updating specifications or evidence bases for existing measures, improving measure feasibility and validity, expanding measures to new settings or populations, and aligning measures with other programs or standards to reduce redundancy. CMS frames this as directly supporting the CMS Quality Measure Development Plan, meaning applicants are expected to contribute to CMS-defined priorities and help push the overall national measurement strategy forward rather than building measures in isolation.
CMS also emphasizes several practical and policy priorities the funded projects should help address. These include stronger clinician engagement so measures better match clinical reality and encourage participation, and more consumer- or patient-informed measurement so the results can support decisions by patients and caregivers. Another focus is closing critical measure gaps, which generally means targeting areas where current measures are missing, outdated, or not capturing meaningful outcomes. CMS also calls out quality measure alignment, reflecting a desire to harmonize measures across programs and reduce conflicting requirements. Finally, a major theme is improving data collection efficiency in ways that minimize provider burden, such as leveraging existing electronic data sources and designing measures that are feasible without excessive manual reporting.
In terms of funding details included in the source data, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $6,000,000 and an expected number of 10 awards. The activity category is health (CFDA 93.986), and the instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically means CMS expects substantial involvement during the project period through collaboration, guidance, and coordination rather than providing a hands-off grant. The opportunity was created March 2, 2018, with an original application closing date of May 2, 2018.Apply for CMS 1V1 18 002
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.986.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 02, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 02, 2018 No Explanation. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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