ACP's Quality Payment Advisor helps clinicians navigate approaching QPP deadline
ACP's Quality Payment Advisor also assists with identifying quality metrics to report and the various ways to submit data to CMS: registry, claims, or direct electronic health record submission.
The 2017 reporting deadline for CMS’ Quality Payment Program (QPP) is March 31, 2018. ACP's Quality Payment Advisor (QPA), a free online tool for ACP members, helps clinicians navigate CMS’ new QPP and avoid a payment penalty in 2019.
The QPA helps determine how members should be reporting the following:
- Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) or Alternative Payment Model (APM)
- Group or solo
- Full year/partial year/test
The QPA also assists with identifying quality metrics to report and the various ways to submit data to CMS: registry, claims, or direct EHR submission.
Clinicians who have already determined how they should report can log into CMS’ QPP site and submit data using their Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) credentials. The EIDM account is a single-user identification used to access many CMS systems and connects users with their practice's Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN).
Once connected, clinicians can report data for the group, for individuals in the practice, and/or for multiple sites as needed.
As data are entered, clinicians will see real-time initial scoring within the MIPS performance categories. Data are automatically saved, and clinician records are updated in real time.