Upcoming registration deadlines
The deadline for providers to register in 2019 NACOR Basic, NACOR Benchmarking or NACOR Quality Reporting is Thursday, October 31. ASA members who will be participating in 2019 NACOR Quality Reporting must complete their 2019 ASA membership renewal by the end of business on Tuesday, October 1. Members who have not renewed their memberships by October 1 will be charged the NACOR non-member rates for 2019 quality reporting.
MIPS Improvement Activities account for 15 percent of score
For the 2019 performance year, Improvement Activities will again account for 15 percent of the total Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score for eligible clinicians (ECs)/groups. MIPS-eligible clinicians will have more than 100 Improvement Activities to choose.
It is in the best interest of ECs/groups to report on all required MIPS components, including Improvement Activities, to be eligible to receive a positive payment adjustment. Review ASA's Recommended Improvement Activities for Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
To earn full credit in this performance category, each activity must be performed for 90 continuous days or more during 2019. The last 90-day period is October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019.
Provider Consents for Individual Reporting
AQI's NACOR is collecting consent forms from each Eligible Clinician (EC) who is enrolled in 2019 individual quality reporting, as required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). AQI will only submit data to CMS for individual quality reporting for providers who have signed consent forms.
For those practices who have registered for 2019 Quality Reporting the paper consent form was attached to the confirmation email that was sent by AQI.
Email askaqi@asahq.org with any questions regarding the consent process.
2019 registration deadlines approaching
ASA members who will be participating in 2019 NACOR Quality Reporting must complete their 2019 ASA membership renewal by the end of business on Tuesday, October 1, 2019. Members who have not renewed their memberships by October 1 will be charged the NACOR non-member rates for 2019 quality reporting.
Visit AQI at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2019
Have a question about NACOR or AQI? Meet your partners in quality reporting at the AQI Booth in the ASA Resource Center at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2019 in Orlando. The AQI team will be at the booth October 19 - 21.
Attend the Anesthesia Quality Meeting™
Learn how to manage and improve the quality of your practice and your performance in quality measurement programs by attending the Anesthesia Quality Meeting at ASA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, on November 16-17. An optional pre-conference workshop on quality reporting is scheduled on Friday, November 15. Register today.