By Kate Goodrich, MD – I am pleased to announce that the CMS is notifying eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting and/or the Medicare EHR Incentive Programs of a deadline extension.
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In response to feedback and in recognition of the large volume of changes introduced into ICD-10 in FY 2017, the CMS and the NLM will update all impacted electronic clinical quality measure value sets for the 2017 performance period.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have published the 2017 performance period electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Logic Flows for MIPS Eligible Clinicians to the eCQI Resource Center and the eCQM Library.
By John Halamka MD – With all the changes happening to Meaningful Use, Quality Measurement, and MACRA in 2016, I’ve been asked many questions by many organizations to help them plan for the future.
CMS is updating select electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) that eligible professionals and eligible hospitals will electronically report in 2016. These versions of the measures were posted on CMS’ website on May 1, 2015 for the annual update of the 2014 measure set.
Join CMS, ONC, and industry representatives on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 for an eHealth webinar session entitled “Getting Started with Electronic Quality Measures (eCQMs 101) for Quality Reporting Programs.”
Eligible hospitals and CAHs must successfully attest to demonstrating meaningful use by November 30 to receive a 2014 incentive payment. Hospitals participating in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program need to refer to their state deadlines for attestation.
EPs attesting to 2014 eCQMs are required to report 9 from a list of 64 for the EHR Incentive Programs. eCQMs can now be submitted through a new CMS portal.
CMS Posts 2014 Eligible Hospital eCQM Annual Update The following is communication from the CMS Listserv. The annual update of the 2014 electronic clinical quality…