The QCDR designation gives the AQI flexibility to develop measures that improve anesthesiologist quality of care and allows non-PQRS measures to be reported to CMS. Here are three reasons anesthesiologists should consider participating in NACOR:
1. CMS is coordinating its various quality programs so that eligible providers will only need to report once for PQRS, for the Value-Based Payment Modifier program, (which is based on the PQRS data reported in 2014) and for the electronic health record incentive program.
2. Over the next five years, CMS will phase out claims-based reporting in favor of registry-based reporting.
3. Qualified clinical data registries are required to provide timely feedback at least four times per year on the measures for which the QCDR would report on the individual eligible provider’s behalf.
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