Medium-weight activities count for 10 improvement points. Each practice needs a total of 40 points.
This can be met by
- • Two high-weight activities
- • One high-weight activity and two medium-weight activities
- • Four medium-weight activities
Read about other high-weight activities or medium-weight activities.
For small practices (or practices in a rural or health professional shortage area) the points are doubled. A medium-weight activity then counts for 20 improvement points. You can get your 40 points with two medium-weight activities.
In this article we will discuss two of the medium-weight activities.
Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop
To meet Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop, you will need a policy to ensure that you send referral reports back to the referral source. Referral reports need to be sent back in a timely manner and you will have to document the sending of the report. This activity is a practice builder. It is something that you should be doing every time you are sent a referral simply because it is good for business.
A very nice side effect of participating in this activity is improved communication with other clinicians in your community. This not only can provide opportunities for clinical co-ordination that will improve outcomes, but this enhanced communication is very likely to increase the number of referrals your practice receives from other clinicians in your community.
Use of QCDR Data for Ongoing Practice Assessment and Improvements
To meet Use of QCDR Data for Ongoing Practice Assessment and Improvements, you need to participate in a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) and use QCDR data for ongoing practice assessment and improvement in patient safety. This can include:
- • Performance of activities that promote use of standard practices, tools and processes for quality improvement (for example, documented preventative screening and vaccinations that can be shared across MIPS eligible clinician or groups)
- • Use of standard questionnaires for assessing improvements in health disparities related to functional health status (for example, use of Seattle Angina Questionnaire, MD Anderson Symptom Inventory, and/or SF-12/VR-12 functional health status assessment)
- • Use of standardized processes for screening for social determinants of health such as food security, employment and housing
- • Use of supporting QCDR modules that can be incorporated into the certified EHR technology
- • Use of QCDR data for quality improvement such as comparative analysis across specific patient populations for adverse outcomes after an outpatient surgical procedure and corrective steps to address adverse outcomes
As a Registry Clearinghouse user, you would be participating in a QCDR registry. To meet this activity AND optimize your MIPS score, Registry Clearinghouse encourages all clients to schedule monthly meetings to review how you are doing on your quality measures. This gives you the opportunity to understand where you are doing well, where you are performing sub optimally allowing you to improve your MIPS score.
Get your meeting set up with Registry Clearinghouse now. Login to your portal at RegistryClearinghouse.com. On the left-hand menu select Schedule Support Call. Make sure to send your data to Registry Clearinghouse 72 hours before your meeting to review the most recent data.
Completing these two improvement activities not only helps you earn half of the improvement points (or all the improvement points if you are a small office). They will set you up to optimize your quality measures and increase business for your office.
Contact Registry Clearinghouse at info@registryclearinghouse.com or schedule a meeting to learn more about how Registry Clearinghouse can help you.
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