The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (@CMSGov)Â recently posted new resources to the Quality Payment Program website to help eligible clinicians and data submission vendors successfully prepare to participate in the program.
CMS encourages these eligible clinicians, registries, qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs), and electronic health record (EHR) vendors to visit the website to review the new materials and information, including:
For Clinicians:
- Quality Payment Program: Key Objectives
- Advancing Care Information Fact Sheet
- Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in the Quality Payment Program
- Improvement Activities in MIPS APMs
- APMs: Medicaid and All-Payer Models Fact Sheet
For registries, QCDRs and EHR vendors:
- Quality Measures Specifications
- Quality Measures Supporting Documents
- 2017 Quality Benchmarks
- Quality Measure Encounter Codes
- Advancing Care Information Measure Specifications
- Advancing Care Information Measure Specifications Fact Sheet
- Advancing Care Information for Vendors
- Qualified Registry Self-Nomination Fact Sheet
- QCDR Self-Nomination Fact Sheet
Coming Soon
CMS will continue to update the Educational Resources webpage of the Quality Payment Program website to include additional information and resources throughout 2017. Stay tuned for future announcements about the website.