Performance Improvement Projects definition

Performance Improvement Projects means those activities required, pursuant to 42 CFR § 438.330, to be undertaken by Contractor that must be designed to achieve significant improvement, sustained over time, in health outcomes and Member satisfaction and meet the elements set forth in 42 CFR § 438.330(d) and as set forth in further detail in Ex. B, Part 10 of the Contract.
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Performance Improvement Projects. The M+C Organization agrees to: (a) conduct quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) projects as directed annually by CMS. These projects must be outcomes-oriented and targeted at achieving demonstrable, sustained improvement in significant aspects of specified clinical and non-clinical areas which can be expected to have a favorable effect on enrollees' health outcomes and satisfaction. CMS shall establish the obligations of the M+C Organization for the number and distribution of projects among the required clinical and non-clinical areas. (b) In those years when CMS establishes a national improvement project for the Medicare+Choice program, the M+C Organization shall participate in the CMS-sponsored national QAPI initiative, unless the M+C Organization meets the requirements for an exemption from the initiative.
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Performance Improvement Projects means those activities required, pursuant to 42 CFR §438.330, to be undertaken by Contractor that must be designed to achieve significant improvement, sustained over time, in health outcomes and Member satisfaction and meet the elements set forth in 42 CFR §438.330(d) and as set forth in further detail in Ex. B, Part 10 of the Contract.
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Examples of Performance Improvement Projects in a sentence

  • Validating Performance Improvement Projects: Mandatory Protocol for External Quality Review (EQR), Protocol 3, Version 2.0, September 2012.

  • In accordance with current BBA regulations, IPRO undertook validation of Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs) for each Medicaid PH MCO.

  • Validation of Performance Improvement Projects was used as the framework to assess the quality of each PIP, as well as to score the compliance of each PIP with both federal and state requirements.

  • In accordance with current BBA regulations, IPRO undertook validation of Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs) for each CHIP MCO.

  • Annually EQRO QR-10 QR-10 Performance Improvement Projects Performance Improvement Project Reports (Format for submission determined by and communicated by External Quality Review Organization).

  • Data collected for Performance Measures and/or Performance Improvement Projects must be returned by the Contractor in the format and according to instructions from AHCCCS, by the due date specified.

  • When requested, the Contractor must submit data for standardized Performance Measures and/or Performance Improvement Projects as required by AHCCCS within specified timelines and according to AHCCCS procedures for collecting and reporting the data.

  • The Contractor shall conduct a minimum of two Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs) per year, including any PIPs required by DHCS or CMS.

  • This section is a summary of findings from these reports, including Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs), as well as HEDIS® and CAHPS®.

  • All CHIP MCOs are required to submit their projects using a standardized PIP template form, which is consistent with the CMS protocol for Conducting Performance Improvement Projects.

Related to Performance Improvement Projects

  • Development Project means a project for the development of land within a project area.

  • Capital Improvement Project means the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, planning and equipping of roads and bridges, appurtenances to roads and bridges to enhance the safety of animal-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles, wastewater treatment facilities, water supply systems, solid waste disposal facilities, and storm water and sanitary collection, storage and treatment facilities including real property, interests in real property, facilities, and equipment related or incidental to those facilities.

  • Infrastructure improvement means permanent infrastructure that is essential for the public health and safety or that:

  • Redevelopment project means a specific construction project

  • Infrastructure Improvements means a street, road, sidewalk, parking facility, pedestrian mall, alley, bridge, sewer, sewage treatment plant, property designed to reduce, eliminate, or prevent the spread of identified soil or groundwater contamination, drainage system, waterway, waterline, water storage facility, rail line, utility line or pipeline, transit-oriented development, transit-oriented property, or other similar or related structure or improvement, together with necessary easements for the structure or improvement, owned or used by a public agency or functionally connected to similar or supporting property owned or used by a public agency, or designed and dedicated to use by, for the benefit of, or for the protection of the health, welfare, or safety of the public generally, whether or not used by a single business entity, provided that any road, street, or bridge shall be continuously open to public access and that other property shall be located in public easements or rights-of-way and sized to accommodate reasonably foreseeable development of eligible property in adjoining areas. Infrastructure improvements also include 1 or more of the following whether publicly or privately owned or operated or located on public or private property:

  • Ongoing Project means a multi-year project undertaken by a Company in fulfilment of its CSR obligation having timelines not exceeding three years excluding the financial year in which it was commenced, and shall include such project that was initially not approved as a multi-year project but whose duration has been extended beyond one year by the board based on reasonable justification;

  • Continuous Improvement Plan means a plan for improving the provision of the Goods and/or Services and/or reducing the Charges produced by the Supplier pursuant to Framework Schedule 12 (Continuous Improvement and Benchmarking);

  • Improvement Plan means the plan required by the Authority from the Supplier which shall detail how the Supplier will improve the provision of the Goods and/or Services pursuant to Clause 29.1.1 (Authority Remedies);

  • Home improvement means the remodeling, altering,

  • Needs Improvement the Educator’s performance on a standard or overall is below the requirements of a standard or overall, but is not considered to be unsatisfactory at this time. Improvement is necessary and expected. Unsatisfactory: the Educator’s performance on a standard or overall has not significantly improved following a rating of needs improvement, or the Educator’s performance is consistently below the requirements of a standard or overall and is considered inadequate, or both.

  • Project Improvements means site improvements and facilities that are:

  • Subproject means a specific project to be carried out by an existing BE utilizing the proceeds of a Sub-loan or Investment, as hereinafter defined, fulfilling the conditions set forth in Part A of Schedule 4 to this Agreement;

  • Site Improvements means any construction work on, or improvement to, streets, roads, parking facilities, sidewalks, drainage structures and utilities.

  • The Works/Project means the works to be executed or done under this contract.

  • Redevelopment Project Area means an area designated by the municipality, which is not less in the aggregate than 1 1/2 acres and in respect to which the municipality has made a finding that there exist conditions which cause the area to be classified as an industrial park conservation area or a blighted area or a conservation area, or a combination of both blighted areas and conservation areas.

  • Pilot project means an innovative environmental project that covers one or more designated facilities, designed and implemented in the form of an EMSA. (See Section 52.3 of the Act.)

  • Maximum medical improvement means a point in time when any medically

  • Phase 1 means the phase of the ATP comprised of: (1) improvements to the State Street Substation; (2) construction of the Proposed Line; (3) the rebuilding of NYSEG’s existing Lines 971 and 000 xxxxx xx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx xx the NYSEG ROW to allow for construction of the Proposed Line as intended; (4) improvements to the Elbridge Substation to accept the Proposed Line; and (5) National Grid’s conveyance to NYSEG of the NYSEG Acquired ROW and such other land interests as contemplated by the Purchase and Sale Agreement.

  • Energy efficiency improvement means equipment, devices, or materials intended to decrease energy consumption, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

  • Public improvement costs means the costs of:

  • NCZ Examined Project means any Generator or UDR project that is not exempt pursuant to 23.4.5.7.8 and either (i) is in a Class Year on the date the Commission accepts the first ICAP Demand Curve to apply to a Mitigated Capacity Zone or (ii) meets the criteria specified in 23.4.5.7.3(II). An NCZ Examined Project may be at any phase of development or in operation or an Installed Capacity Supplier.For purposes of Section 23.4.5 of this Attachment H, “Net CONE” shall mean the localized levelized embedded costs of a peaking unit in a Mitigated Capacity Zone, net of the likely projected annual Energy and Ancillary Services revenues of such unit, as determined in connection with establishing the Demand Curve for a Mitigated Capacity Zone pursuant to Section 5.14.1.2 of the Services Tariff, or as escalated as specified in Section 23.4.5.7 of Attachment H.

  • Improvement Costs means any additional expenditure on a fixed asset that materially increases the capacity of the asset or materially improves its functioning or represents more than 10% of the initial depreciation base of the asset;

  • New Project means (a) each facility which is either a new facility, branch or office or an expansion, relocation, remodeling or substantial modernization of an existing facility, branch or office owned by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries which in fact commences operations and (b) each creation (in one or a series of related transactions) of a business unit to the extent such business unit commences operations or each expansion (in one or a series of related transactions) of business into a new market.

  • Performance Test means all operational checks and tests required to determine the performance parameters including inter-alia capacity, efficiency and operating characteristics of the Stores as specified in the Contract.

  • Minimum Improvements means the acquisition of land and construction of a 152-unit market rate residential apartment building, construction of a stormwater pond and related improvements. The Minimum Improvements are more fully depicted in Exhibit B, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein.

  • Construction project means the same as that term is defined in Section 38-1a-102.