The latest annual List of Measures under Consideration is part of a broader "Meaningful Metrics" initiative launched in 2017 to reduce red tape for providers. Most of the 2020 quality and efficiency metrics proposed by the federal government would be collected digitally, cutting the hassle for providers to retrieve the data manually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday. CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the List of Measures under Consideration is part of a broader "Meaningful Metrics" initiative launched in 2017 to reduce red tape for providers. "We launched Meaningful Measures because too many providers were wasting precious time and resources reporting on quality metrics, many of which were barely relevant to their specialty," Verma said.