Health IT Interoperability October 17, 2016
Health data exchange is the goal of the advancing care information performance category under MIPS.
One guiding principle behind the advancing care information performance category under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System is to bridge information gaps between care settings.
To that end, the final rule for the Quality Payment Program — of which MIPS is one path; the other being Advanced Payment Models (APMs) — requires eligible clinicians to report five measures within this category that are focused on health IT interoperability in order to at the very least avoid a negative payment adjustment for participation in the first year of the program.
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services noted in the announcement of the final rule, 2017...
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