ACO Quality

News and Advocacy

• CMS APP Scoring Guide for 2022 – With Updated Quality Benchmarks
• CMS posts 2022 Web Interface quality benchmarks
  • Benchmarks are included in the appendix and listed for each percentile, starting with the 30^th percentile and ending with the 90^th percentile. For PY 2022, MSSP ACOs can report via Web Interface, electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) or MIPS CQMs. Measure specifications and benchmarks differ based on the reporting method chosen.
• CMS publishes 2022 quality benchmark
• CMS fact sheet on benchmarks
• CMS 2022 quality measure information
• Web Interface and Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) clinical quality measure information and supporting documents.
• The Quality Payment Program (QPP) resource library includes an APM Performance Pathway (APP) toolkit providing an overview of quality requirements for the APP
• Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) specifications can be accessed via the eCQI Resource Center. NAACOS also has a resource to assist members in understanding how to access eCQM specifications, which are displayed differently than Web Interface and MIPS CQM measures
• 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

• 2021 quality benchmarks for the Quality Payment Program, available on the QPP Resource Library (search ‘2021 Quality Benchmarks'

NAACOS Resources

• eCQMs for ACOs: Recommendations from the NAACOS Digital Quality Measurement Task Force
  
  
• New Resource! The APP for ACOs resource explains new quality reporting requirements and scoring rules for 2021-2025 
  
  
• NAACOS releases guide to accessing eCQM specifications for ACOs 
  
  
• NAACOS analysis of the proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 
  
  
• NAACOS ACO Quality Reporting Guide 
  
  
• 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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