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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made it a goal to move to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) by 2025. However, accountable care organizations (ACOs) often work with multiple EHR vendors and systems, which means they need makes eCQM reporting support.
A NAACOS survey found that more than half of ACOs said they would not be ready or were unsure if they would be prepared to report eCQMs by 2025.
“This is just not on radar sufficiently yet, and it really needs to be,” Katherine Schneider, MD, chair of the NAACOS Digital Quality Measurement Task Force, said during a roundtable discussion at the fall 2022 NAACOS Conference.
Particularly, cost is top-of-mind for ACOs worried about upcoming eCQM requirements.