Provide Feedback
on Proposed Changes to the Promoting Interoperability Programs
On April 23, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) issued the FY 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System
(IPPS) and Long-term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment
System (PPS) Proposed Rule.
Submit a Formal Comment by June 24, 2019
Comments on the FY 2020 IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule are due
no later than 5 p.m. ET,
June 24, 2019. The public can submit comments in several
ways:
- By regular mail;
- By express or overnight mail;
- By hand or courier; and
- Electronically:
Through the “submit a comment” instructions on the Federal Register.
Please review the proposed rule for specific instructions
for each method and submit comments by one method only.
More Information on the FY 2020 IPPS and
LTCH Proposed Rule
The FY 2020 IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule includes proposals
to the Promoting Interoperability Programs including:
- Establishing an EHR reporting period of a minimum
of any continuous 90-day period in calendar year (CY) 2021 for new
and returning participants,
- Removing the Verify Opioid Treatment Agreement
measure beginning in CY 2020,
- Changing the Query of Prescription Drug
Monitoring Program (PDMP) measure in CY 2020 from required to
optional, and
- Converting the Query of PDMP measure from a
numerator/denominator response to a yes/no attestation beginning
with the EHR reporting period in CY 2019.
The FY 2020 IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule proposes three
changes for reporting eCQMs. These proposals align with the Promoting
Interoperability Program’s Clinical Quality Measure proposals:
- For the CY 2020 reporting period/FY 2022 payment
determination and CY 2021 reporting period/FY 2023 payment
determination, to extend the current eCQM reporting and submission
requirements finalized for the CY 2019 reporting period, such that
hospitals submit one, self-selected calendar quarter of discharge
data for four self-selected eCQMs in the Hospital IQR Program measure
set,
- For the CY 2022 reporting period/FY 2024 payment
determination, to require hospitals to report one, self-selected
calendar quarter of data for: (1) three self-selected eCQMs, and (2)
the proposed Safe Use of Opioids – Concurrent Prescribing eCQM, for a
total of four eCQMs,
- Require EHR technology be certified to all eCQMs
available to report for the CY 2020 reporting period/FY 2022 payment
determination and subsequent years.
Additionally, CMS seeks comment on topics including:
- Opioid measures based on existing efforts by
National Quality Forum and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention for potential inclusion in the Promoting Interoperability
Programs,
- Measures to engage vendors and clinicians in
improving the efficiency of healthcare providers use of EHRs,
- Inclusion of Medicare Promoting Interoperability
Program data on the CMS Hospital Compare website,
- Integration of Patient-Generated Health Data into
EHRs using CEHRT,
- Activities that promote the safety of the EHR,
and
- Measure requiring the use of an open application
programming interface (API), including reporting of such a measure
as an alternative to the patient access measure.
For More Information
Review this fact sheet on the proposed rule
(CMS-1716-P).
To view the proposed rule (CMS-1716-P), please visit the Federal Register.
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