N.Y. PBH Law § 2999-D

* § 2999-d. Commissioner's workgroup. 1. The commissioner shall,\nwithin ninety days of the effective date of this title, convene and\nchair, directly or through a designee or designees, a workgroup\nincluding but not necessarily limited to representatives of statewide\nand regional health care provider associations, health care plan\nassociations and conferences, hospital representatives, consumers, labor\nand self-insured employers. The commissioner shall consider\nrecommendations and criteria developed by the workgroup in making\ndeterminations under this title.\n 2. The workgroup shall seek consensus on clinical measures and\nmeasurement criteria necessary and appropriate to achieve improvement in\nquality performance by providers in delivering health care services;\nfurther, it shall develop metrics to be utilized by demonstration\nprojects selected pursuant to the provisions of this title which will,\nwhen implemented:\n (a) promote the use of best practices through the development of\nbroadly agreed upon evidence-based performance measures;\n (b) improve care coordination through the participation of multiple\nstakeholders;\n (c) institute long-term quality improvement;\n (d) encourage appropriate utilization of health care services and\nimprove health outcomes through the use of evidence-based medicine\npractice guidelines; and\n (e) promote self-management by consumers through the implementation of\npatient-specific metrics and resource supports for consumers.\n 3. In its recommendations, the workgroup shall give consideration to\nthe appropriate number of participants in each demonstration project as\nwell as the geographic boundaries of each demonstration project.\n * NB Expired April 1, 2011\n