CMS Application: Task Force on Health Costs and Quality

Thank you for your interest in the newly created CMS Task Force on Health Care Costs and Quality. In September the CMS board of directors voted to create the task force and solicit applications to participate from CMS member physicians. The group will engage the state's Commission on Affordable Health Care - which has been directed by the Colorado General Assembly to identify systemic and other underlying causes of excessive and unnecessary health care costs and to propose specific legislative, regulatory, and market-based strategies to reduce costs and improve quality. Additionally, the CMS task force will develop evidenced-based proposals to reduce cost and improve quality, respond to and seek a physician consensus on proposals submitted by third parties to the commission, and proactively communicate with and engage Colorado physicians in this work.

We are looking for talented Colorado physicians from various practice settings with expertise in care delivery management, such as how care is priced, billed and delivered at a high value. We envision that this will be a three-year commitment to coincide with the work of the Colorado Commission on Affordable Health Care with a minimum of four meetings in 2015.