One of the most frequently asked questions our quality reporting team receives pertains to “how” data will be actually be submitted to Medicare for MIPS. Most of us remember the Meaningful Use process where we’d save our scorecards in RevolutionEHR at the end of the year and then head to an online portal where we’d transcribe that information so CMS knows how well we did. Some might refer to that process with choice four-letter words, but CMS calls it “attestation”.
2018 MIPS reporting will also involve an attestation process for two of the four performance categories. Remember that we defined those categories earlier as Promoting Interoperability, Quality, Improvement Activities, and Cost. Promoting Interoperability and Improvement Activities will be the ones that require attestation.
For Promoting Interoperability, RevolutionEHR provides a scorecard that allows you to track your performance. It’s called the MIPS – PI scorecard and you can find that via Reports > Administration > Providers > MIPS – PI. A future post will discuss the scorecard in more detail, but you’ll end up saving a copy of this for your chosen date range (a.k.a. performance period) and then heading to a CMS portal where you’ll enter your performance data for each measure.
For Improvement Activities, you’ll be presented with a list of 100+ activities, select the ones you participated in, and then attest to “Yes” for those. Easy.
That leaves the Quality performance category and this is one that will not involve attestation. That’s because your quality data is either reported over the course of the year (for claims-based reporters) or tracked over the course of the year for submission later (for EHR and registry reporters). RevolutionEHR has made it possible to report quality data from the application since 2014 and 2018 will be no different. What might be a little different is the workflow. But once Medicare makes their plans official, we’ll publish a guidance document that walks you through the process step-by-step.
Summary:
- All performance data needs to be submitted no later than March 31, 2019
- Data will be reported through the Quality Payment Program website at qpp.cms.gov
- Your Promoting Interoperability data will come from the MIPS – PI scorecard in RevolutionEHR. You will manually transcribe information from that scorecard into the Quality Payment Program system.
- Your Improvement Activities reporting will be a manual attestation where you’ll select the activities you completed and say “Yes, I did these”.
- There are various ways to report data for the Quality category and, as in the past, RevolutionEHR will make an electronic process available to you.
- We will provide guidance information to help you report your data. Stay tuned for up-to-the-minute news on that front.
