Download Slides Cuts in the federal budget might be like running into a buzz saw for your health care finances. For academic systems, loss of indirect costs of research alone could wipe out 30% or more of the bottom line. Along with that, proposed changes in Medicaid, elimination of medical debt money, and redirection…
Download Slides Cost control has been one of the central objectives of Value-Based Care. Providers in ACOs and other APMs are participating in a variety of payment models with a cost control objective that is sometimes seen as secondary to other objectives. Under the upcoming politics of less government and less regulation, however, cost…
Download Slides If you aren’t prepared for APP Reporting because you still think that you can duck APP Reporting with a revised Final Rule, don’t put money on it! You’ve lost a lot of lead time, but you still have options for APP Reporting. It’s time for weighing last minute options to meet requirements with the most economical and efficient APP…
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…
By 2025, accountable care organizations will be required to do quality reporting via electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). Maria Alexander, senior director of population health at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, recently spoke about the pros and cons of reporting via eCQMs during the voluntary transition period between now and then. The Centers…
The usage of multiple electronic health record (EHR) systems is a common occurrence among accountable care organizations (ACOs). This paper summarizes the results of a survey on EHR usage within ACOs and discusses some of the issues this may present in reporting quality measures, including that: Just 9% of surveyed ACOs use a single EHR…
On Oct. 1, at the NAACOS Fall 2021 Conference, executives from three accountable care organizations described the daunting road ahead in transitioning to the submission of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. After receiving strong feedback from ACOs about how challenging (and expensive) the transition to eCQMS would…
CMS is looking to modernize the ACO reporting process by mandating the use of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). However, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are concerned that the lack of healthcare interoperability will make electronic ACO reporting near impossible. “CMS must avoid making eCQMs mandatory until standard data fields exist across EHRs, and true interoperability…