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With one year remaining before mandatory APP Reporting in 2026, the idea that you’re already late may sound exaggerated. But consider the significance of what you’re undertaking: This is your first effort to report quality on all your beneficiaries, not just a tiny sliver of patients. It’s a huge leap that requires a lot of advance work. Throughout the 2025 Performance Year data for reporting in 2026, you will be accumulating measure data—or not. You have no chance to improve your quality metrics once 2025 is closed.
For your ACO to be ready for APP Reporting in 2026, you must make and implement numerous decisions and strategies, starting with aggregation of data. These require a series of steps, then tests, to put you at the starting line.
Let’s see if your ACO is running late. Here are the signs that you are not well-positioned for APP Reporting and still have a lot to do:
- You’ve been waiting for the Final Rule to prove that you must change from the Web Interface method of reporting (which you can use for 2025 reporting on Performance Year 2024 ).
- You’re still confused about what you need to do for APP Reporting.
- You don’t have an APP Reporting vendor.
- You haven’t decided on your best method for APP Reporting.
- You don’t have information on your participating practice EHRs.
- You haven’t collected any data.