ACO Quality

News and Advocacy

• NAACOS and 10 others write HHS asking for a delay in MSSP quality overhaul
  
  
• NAACOS showcases how ACOs are improving quality for patients
  
  

• NAACOS document with ACO survey results urges CMS to indefinitely delay mandatory ACO reporting of eCQMs and MIPS CQMs

• NAACOS letter to CMS urges 2020 MSSP quality scoring changes due to pandemic
  
  
• CMS Posts New APM Performance Pathway (APP) Factsheet
  
  
• CMS releases final 2021 Physician Fee Schedule rule including major quality changes for ACOs in 2021 and 2022 creating a new APM Performance Pathway (APP) for ACO quality assessment
  • More detail available in this factsheet along with detailed QPP changes
  • NAACOS-issued press release on the final rule
    
    
• 2021 quality benchmarks for the Quality Payment Program, available on the QPP Resource Library (search ‘2021 Quality Benchmarks'

NAACOS Resources

• New! ACO Quality Changes for 2021 and 2022 
  
  
• NAACOS ACO Quality Reporting Guide 
  
  
• NAACOS analysis of the final 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) which includes major quality changes for MSSP ACOs in 2021 and 2022
  
  
• NAACOS webinar reviewing final 2021 MPFS rule changes, including quality changes effective for 2021 and 2022 for MSSP ACOs
  
  
• Annual ACO CEHRT Attestation Requirement
  
  
• NAACOS Resource on Preparing for a Quality Measures Validation Audit 
   

CMS Resources

• MSSP Quality Resources
  
  
• CMS APP Page
  
  
• CMS QPP Page
  
  
• CMS QPP Resource Library
  
  
• CMS eCQM Resource Center
  
  
• CMS APP Fact Sheet

Public Use Files

• The CMS Public Use File contains ACO quality performance and is updated on an annual basis 

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