The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires that a unique identifier be assigned to each health care provider and health plan. Accordingly, CMS uses enrollment systems, including the Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) and the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), to manage provider information and identifiers. Learn more about this and how it applies to your participation in the Quality Payment Program with this resource.

This one-pager from Comagine Health and Mountain-Pacific Quality Health outlines what a Direct email is and how to use to exchange protected health information (PHI).

During the COVID-19 emergency, it is important for everyone to practice social distancing and stay at home. The Medicare population, especially those with comorbid conditions, are most at risk. Telehealth provides an opportunity for patients to stay home and receive health care for non-emergency medical conditions. This document aids understanding this important tool.

The CMS Quality Payment Program website allows clinicians to search a comprehensive list of the Improvement Activities by year.

The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV), including Personalized Prevention Plan Services (PPPS), is an excellent way to perform needed services and capture MIPS quality measure data at the same time. Review this resource to find out more about how AWVs can assist in capturing valuable quality data.

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.