Another significant milestone reached for Acmeware and the OneView Hospital Quality and Physician Quality product.
I am excited to announce that we have successfully completed all submissions of Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) for Meaningful Use and PQRS for MEDITECH acute care and ambulatory services using the OneView Physician Quality reporting product.
This success is a testament to the talent, dedication and commitment of the OneView project team given the aggressive timelines, multisystem interoperability requirements and the large volume of providers responsible for submitting eCQMs. We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to this success.
Our clients avoided the automatic PQRS and Value-Based Payment Modifier (VM) penalties by satisfying the submission requirements. In addition, this year we were able to reduce our client's financial costs associated with reporting individually for multiple CMS programs by aligning reporting requirements and streamlining their reporting efforts. We aligned Clinical Quality Measure reporting requirements across multiple programs to report quality data only once for PQRS and Meaningful Use.
The clinical workflow analysis and nomenclature mapping efforts completed during this project have created an opportunity to optimize Value-Based Payment Modifier (VM) Quality of Care composite scoring as we transition to the new value-base care reimbursement model with Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Quality reporting of EHR data through the Electronic Clinical Quality measures (eCQM) system remains a strategic component for CMS in the transition to value-based care, the consolidation of PQRS, VBM and Meaningful Use with MACRA and MIPS. MIPS will sunset the PQRS, VBM and Meaningful Use penalties in 2018 creating a new composite score for judging incentives and adjustments. MIPS simplifies the application of incentives and penalties for PQRS, VBM and Meaningful Use while continuing to measure performance as specified by each of the three programs.
Acmeware continues to lead the way in clinical quality measure reporting and remains committed to working hospitals and physicians as they prepare for MACRA and MIPS in their efforts to meet eCQM reporting requirements. This accomplishment demonstrates our long term commitment to quality reporting and highlights why healthcare organizations are partnering with Acmeware to improve care quality and outcomes by using OneView as a single integrated quality reporting platform.
Trust is an important factor in determining a PQRS vendor partnership. As a trusted partner in Quality Reporting, Acmeware takes the responsibility of submitting PQRS measures to CMS through QualityNet. PQRS vendors are not required to submit CQM data, however, Acmeware offers to submit this data on behalf of all its partners at no cost as a value-added, concierge service.
Thank you for trusting Acmeware as your Clinical Quality Measure reporting partner. We look forward to continuing to be a trusted partner in Quality Reporting.
