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Shared Savings ACOs get a year off from electronic clinical quality measures

Shared Savings ACOs get a year off from electronic clinical quality measures

July 26, 2021StaffNo CommentsPart B NewsMedicare ACOs/MSSP,Alternative payment models (APMs)

After their first year of using the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Performance Pathway (APP) reporting method, participants in the Shared Savings program are spared further challenges as CMS delays the full transition to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) and MIPS clinical quality measures (MIPS CQM) and scales back some program requirements.

Last year, participants in the largest CMS accountable care organization (ACO) program were told to report quality for both QPP and Shared Savings purposes via APP. The required that they swap out the CAHPS for ACOs reporting with CAHPS for MIPS., and the 2021 proposed rule required as well that they abandon the Web Interface reporting method and report instead eCQM and MIPS CQM via APP, which would require all-payer reporting, not just Medicare reporting. But in the final rule for 2021, CMS bowed to stakeholder pressure and pushed that requirement back a year.

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: APP, APP measures, CAHPS, MIPS, MIPS Value Pathways

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