QPP Website
Validate the eligibility for NPIs associated with your practice
Remember to note any other TINs that NPI is associated with
If you are part of an ACO, check for QP designation
Review the Physician Compare Report that will be posted early in 2019
If anything is incorrect, you need to report it as soon as possible to prevent it being posted publicly
Prepare for Submission
Know your numbers
Quality
Pull your data together at the individual and/or group level
At the end of the year, make sure you save copies of supporting data for the final numbers you approve for submission to CMS
Cost
Your performance for the cost measures are listed on the Performance Feedback Report
Know your numbers and how they impact your final score
There isn’t any supporting documentation to save in this category
AAPM participants are already meeting this category and nothing additional is required
Improvement Activities
Identify which Improvement Activities one or more providers actively participated in during 2018
Save the list of activities as well as any report documentation that tracks your participation and progress related to each activity.
AAPM, ACO, and PCMH participants are already meeting this category and nothing additional is required.
Promoting Interoperability
Pull your data together at the individual and/or group level
You must complete the Security Risk Assessment update in the 2018 calendar year. Let us know if you need help ASAP!
You must perform at least one event in each of the base measures to get any points in this category. Base participation completion = 50 points plus any additional points you receive from performance and bonus points.
At the end of the year, make sure you save copies of supporting report data for the final numbers you approve for submission to CMS.
Choose a Submission Method
EHR
You may already be signed up with your vendor to submit your data. This needs to happen prior to the deadline of March 31, 2019. Make sure you have a meeting to approve the data being submitted on your behalf!
Registry
If you are submitting via an approved Registry or QRDA, you should already have a contract in place and know what to expect. If you don’t, you will want to act on that pretty quickly.
You are still able to get the end-to-end submission bonus with some registries.
Registries give you access to MANY measure choices that you don’t have with other submission methods.
CMS Web Interface
If you have not already registered for this method of submission, it is not available to you for 2018.
Register by June 30, 2019 if you have 25 providers or more and are interested in this method for 2018.
Submit
Meet the deadline - MARCH 31, 2019
If you need help, we are here for you.