Quality

News and Advocacy

• NAACOS Advocacy Results in Changes to ACO-17 Scoring
  
  
• New in 2019- Annual ACO CEHRT Attestation Requirement
  
  
• NAACOS urges CMS to make changes to scoring of ACO-17 (smoking cessation) quality measure for 2018
  
  

• 2017 Quality Payment Program Reporting Experience

• NAACOS Submits Comments on CQMC Measure Prioritization Approaches
  
  
• 2019 MSSP Quality Measures Finalized in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule
  
  
• NAACOS analysis of the final 2019 Physician Fee Schedule rule including changes to the 2019 ACO quality measure set
  
  
• NAACOS Summary of the Final 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule including ACO quality changes
  
  
• CMS Posts 2019 Quality Measure Information Forms for ACOs (under ‘Quality Measures and Reporting Specifications’)
  
  
• NAACOS submits letter to NQF on draft attribution report
  
  
• CMS example of 2018 MIPS quality scoring for ACOs
  
  
• OIG Report Highlights Excellent ACO Quality Performance

• NAACOS Resource on Preparing for a Quality Measures Validation Audit 

• ASPE releases report to Congress on social risk factors & value based programs, addressing ACOs specifically in Chapter 9 (page 222) 
  
  
• NAACOS releases final 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule summary reviewing key changes for ACOs including quality reporting changes for 2017. 
  
  
• NAACOS submits letter to CMS on draft quality measure development plan 
  
  
• NAACOS Signs Comment Letter with Patient Quality of Life Coalition on CY2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 
  
  
• The final 2015 CMS rules on Quality Measures and Benchmarking for the MSSP were published October 31, 2014. Read the text of the rule applicable to ACOs.
  
  
• NAACOS Opposes CMS Proposed Changes to ACO Quality Benchmarks

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