Clinical Practice Improvement Activities: Become a Top Performer in this MIPS Category

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) streamlines existing quality programs into one Quality Payment Program. Each year participants will choose from 90 clinical practice improvement activities and 300+ quality measures. They will also submit data that will feed 40+ resource use measures and advancing care information measures. Here is an example of how Provident’s DocEdgeTM Communicator can help you become a top performer in a MIPS category – Quality, Resource Use, Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, Advancing Care Information – and receive top payment in 2019. Remember, the first performance period is quickly approaching, January 2017.

For more information about the two tracks within the MACRA Quality Program (MIPS and APM) click here.

DocEdgeTM Communicator is a HIPAA compliant cloud based app technology that allows for efficient and effective communication among providers, clinical documentation specialists and advanced practice practitioners. Easy to follow templates guide clinicians to provide accurate and concise clinical information so that clinicians can make thoughtful and appropriate responses with just a few taps on their mobile device, expediting provider responses and ensuring the most accurate and complete documentation appears in the medical record.

Instantaneous communication occurs through our web-based technology. The documentation can then be automatically entered into the electronic medical record or other software systems where it will be used to positively impact care coordination, expanded practice areas and population management.

DocEdgeTM Communicator reduces the administrative burden required to drive improvement and compliance with quality programs such as MIPS.

Example of how DocEdgeTM Communicator can support the requirements under the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities category:

Captures documentation to support Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) to accurately reflect disease complexity and resource consumption

  • Supports expanded practice access by providing a 24/7 mechanism of communicating with referring and consulting physicians, specialists and other clinicians
  • Ability to request and provide remote specialty care consults
  • Closes and documents the referral loop between MIPS referring clinicians and specialists
  • Allows for timely communication of test results and documentation of timely follow-up

Provident will continue to provide updates as further details are shared and the final rule is posted from CMS.

Follow @Providentedge or contact us for more information on how to prepare for the MACRA Quality Programs and how DocEdgeTM Communicator can prepare you for the MIPS track domains.

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