Additional Improvement Activities added for 2020
June 5, 2020
NACOR News

Additional Improvement Activities added for 2020

NACOR has added the following Improvement Activities (IAs) for practices to choose for the 2020 reporting year, regarding Covid-19:

  • IA_ERP_1: Participation on Disaster Medical Assistance Team, registered for 6 months
  • IA_ERP_2: Participation in a 60-day or greater effort to support domestic or international humanitarian needs
  • IA_PM_14: Implementation of methodologies for improvements in longitudinal care management for high risk patients
  • IA_PM_18: Provide Clinical-Community Linkages

As a reminder, 50 percent of the clinicians must perform the activity for a consecutive 90-day period. Practices must document the date range that the Improvement Activity was performed in the practice list in the NACOR dashboard. For more information, email AskAQI@asahq.org.

To earn full credit for the Improvement Activity component you must earn 40 points. Medium weighted IAs are worth 10 points and high weighted activities are worth 20 points. If the practice or clinician qualifies for a special status, points may be doubled.

AQI Account Management Services

AQI account managers are available to all NACOR practices as a resource and point of contact for questions or inquiries regarding:

  • Registration
  • NACOR reporting options
  • MIPS Reporting requirements
  • Measure related questions
  • General AQI/ASA questions
  • Data validation questions
  • Review of NACOR dashboards

If you have questions that need to be addressed, email AskAQI@asahq.org and an account manager (Annette Antos or Javeria Ali) will assist you.

AQI Quality Reporting Office Hours June 9

AQI's regularly scheduled Quality Reporting Office Hours are scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 9.

2020 Membership Deadlines

For clinicians to receive ASA Member pricing for 2020 NACOR Reporting, clinicians must have an active 2020 ASA membership. Final payment for AQI services is determined by 2020 ASA membership status. The following ASA membership deadlines are in place:

  • October 1 - Deadline for new ASA membership invoices for 2020; practices must supply list of non-members becoming members to ASA membership.
  • October 25 - Last day to pay ASA dues for 2020 membership.
  • October 31 - NACOR registration deadline. Non-members pay non-member pricing.

For more information email AskAQI@asahq.org.

2020 Reporting Deadlines

NACOR Registration: October 30, 2020

January through November 2019 data submission: January 29, 2021

Individual Quality Reporting Consent Submission: January 29, 2021

Improvement Activity Attestation: January 29, 2021

CMS Opt-Out for Individual Reporting: January 29, 2021

TIN/NPI Reconciliation: January 29, 2021

All data submissions: February 15, 2021

Contact AQI

Register: qcdr@asahq.org

NACOR Dashboard support: NACORSupport@asahq.org

Ask AQI: AskAQI@asahq.org



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