Register for May 21 All-Payer Combination Option Overview Webinar

Join CMS on May 21 for All-Payer Combination Option Overview Webinar

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 3:00 PM ET to provide an overview of the All-Payer Combination Option, which allows clinicians to become a Qualifying APM Participant (QP), and therefore eligible for the 5% APM Incentive payment through participation in a combination of Medicare Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and Other-Payer Advanced APMs, including Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and commercial payers.

During the webinar, CMS subject matter experts will discuss:

Overview of Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and Advanced APMs
All-Payer Combination Option Basics
Other Payer Advanced APMs Criteria
QP Determination Process
Payment Arrangement Options
Help and Support
Question & Answer

Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask CMS subject matter experts questions at the end of the presentation.

Webinar Details

Title: All-Payer Combination Option Overview Webinar

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET

Registration Link: https://meetingconnect.webex.com/meetingconnect/onstage/g.php?MTID=e023e08941ebb318448bd03519767d0f1

The audio portion of this webinar will be broadcast through the web. You can listen to the presentation through your computer speakers. CMS will open the phone line for the Q&A portion. If you cannot hear audio through your computer speakers, please contact CMSQualityTeam@ketchum.com.

Reminder: 2019 Call for MIPS Promoting Interoperability Measures and Improvement Activities is Open

CMS reminds you to submit Promoting Interoperability measures and Improvement Activities for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The MIPS Annual Call for Measures and Activities process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent clinicians, researchers, consumer groups and others to identify and submit measures and activities. We are currently accepting submissions for:

EHR measures for the Promoting Interoperability performance category
Activities for the Improvement Activities performance category

CMS is looking for improvement activities that can be considered higher than standard of care. This means that the sets of practices or activities being proposed for consideration exceed defined, commonly accepted guidelines for level of quality or attainment in clinical care or quality improvement guidelines. CMS won’t accept duplicative concepts. This means improvement activities that may represent either identical language, language similar to but not as robust as existing improvement activities or may contain a partial component of existing language or concepts as those already contained in the improvement activity inventory.

How to Submit Measures and Activities

If you’re interested in proposing new measures and activities for MIPS, review the Call for Measures and Activities Overview fact sheet (zip) and fill out and submit the following forms during the specified submission periods:

Improvement Activities Performance Category (submission period ends July 1, 2019 for 2021 activities)
Promoting Interoperability Performance Category (submission period ends July 1, 2019 for 2021 measures)

For More Information

Download the Call for Measures and Activities materials (zip) within the Quality Payment Program Resource Library. A webinar recording and presentation on the MIPS Annual Call for Measures and Activities are also available on the QPP Webinar Library.

Submit Quality Measures During the Annual Call for MIPS Quality Measures

CMS reminds you to submit Quality measures for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) by June 3, 2019.

The MIPS Annual Call for Quality Measures process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent eligible clinicians, researchers, consumer groups and others to identify and submit measure recommendations in the following domains:

Patient safety
Person and caregiver-centered experience and outcomes
Communication and care coordination
Effective clinical care
Community/population health
Efficiency and cost reduction

How to Submit Measures

If you’re interested in proposing new Quality measures for MIPS, you can do so through the ONC-JIRA system. Visit the pre-rulemaking website on CMS.gov to learn more about JIRA and how to submit measures for consideration.

Measures submitted during the Call for Measures period must:

Be fully developed measures (testing data must accompany submission)
Fulfill a clinical performance gap and is supported by a scientific evidence
Be reportable via Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs), Medicare Part B claims or as an eCQM (electronic clinical quality measure)
Valid and reliable at the individual clinician level
Be ready for implementation at the time of submission
Not the same as existing quality measure in MIPS

Submission must also include a completed Peer Reviewed Journal Article Form, which is available in the 2019 Call for Quality Measures zip file. JIRA will accept proposed Quality measure submissions through June 3, 2019.

Measure Consideration

Measures that are accepted as part of the Call for Quality Measures will be added to the 2019 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List. The finalized MUC List will be available by December 1, 2019 and reviewed at the National Quality Forum’s Annual Measure Application Partnership meeting in December. CMS will then decide which measures will be considered for future rulemaking.

A list of proposed quality measures for consideration in the MIPS program for 2020 will be publicly available for comment by July 1, 2019 and a final annual list of 2020 measures for MIPS eligible clinicians will be published in the Federal Register by November 1 of this year.

For More Information

View the 2019 Call for Quality Measures and Activities zip file on the QPP Resource Library. A webinar recording on the MIPS Annual Call for Quality Measures is also available on the QPP Webinar Library.