Often system(s), clinics or providers are not aware of what APMs they are involved with. Learn how to identify and compare APMs in your specific region/area by looking this information up with this helpful walkthrough from Comagine Health.
CMS’ Hospital VBP Program rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with Medicare. Visit this CMS webpage to find out more about this program and view helpful resources and links.
The electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) page on the eCQI Resource Center offers tools and resources that provide a foundation for the development, testing, certification, publication, implementation, reporting and continuous evaluation of quality measures and their improvement. You can refine the tool list by selecting a category of interest and/or role that best describes your needs, or you can also click a specific tool from the list below to view additional details.
Mountain-Pacific Quality Health's electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) toolkit utilizes aspects of an agile delivery cycle, which focuses on achieving value added changes quickly and efficiently, one change at a time. These systematic improvement cycles are called "sprints." The goal of each sprint is to provide value added results for your organization approximately every two to six weeks and is based on the PDSA iterative quality improvement cycle.
Learn more about how a clinic achieved success with Medicare Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs).
Implementing CMS' chronic and principal care management (CCM/PCM) services provides an opportunity to put a framework around care coordination, chronic disease management and care management for high-risk patients. Additionally, CCM/PCM services lead to enhanced reimbursement, including for team-based care and work that the care team is already performing. This short, straightforward guidance can help with implementing and capturing reimbursement for the CMS CCM and PCM services.
Are you confused about Alternative Payment Models (APMs), Advanced APMs, MIPS APMs and Accountable Organizations (AOs), such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Convener Participants (CPs) and Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs)? This toolkit from Comagine Health combines definitions and checklists to help you determine your compatibility with eligible AOs in your region. There are also readiness checklists for Primary Care and Specialists, along with other important resources to consider. Each page can be printed separately so that you can decide what tools you need.
Use this informative sheet from Mountain-Pacific Quality Health to better understand the pros, cons, aspects to consider and questions to ask when considering joining an ACO.
This document shows the process for successful EHR Adoption and walks through the phases which the resources we offer will help navigate.
This CMS website includes a wealth of information for ACOs, including multiple toolkits.
