Description:
REGCLR5 measures the percentage of patients with a plantar foot ulcer who were compliant with offloading and healed their ulcer in 10 weeks. This measure requires the utilization of remote monitoring where you put the patient in a boot that has a gyrometer in it and you are able to track how many hours a day that the patient is utilizing the boot. You are measuring that the patient is being compliant with the treatment plan.
To meet this measure, patients must be actively monitored and show evidence of ulcer healing within 10 weeks of being placed in a boot equipped with a gyrometer. Patients who are not actively monitored, or who are monitored but do not demonstrate healing within 10 weeks, are considered as not meeting the measure. There are no exclusions for this measure. Due to the excepted number of patients in this measure being lower, performance is evaluated on a curve.
A bonus to monitoring the patient remotely for compliance with the boot, you can actually bill the patient for remote monitoring, and receive compensation for the remote monitoring.
For all MIPS measures, you can earn up to 10 points. As of today, there is no benchmark for this measure. In the meantime, plan on reporting it. While this measure may not rank among your top six, we encourage you to report it to help establish a benchmark—benefiting both your practice and the podiatry profession as a whole. Your goal is to have 6 measures with a score of 8, 9, or 10, to get a perfect 60/60 in quality, and to report a high performance on Podiatry Specific Measures. Small practices will receive six bonus quality points.
Our educational partner CME Online will be providing a free CME Webinar on the clinical value of remote monitoring on Wednesday September 3 at 2:30 PM Pacific / 5:30 PM Eastern. The webinar will include Dr. David Armstrong discussing the clinical evidence and indications for remote monitoring as well as a discussion on proper documentation and billing for this service.
To register for this free webinar
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/592674599053661784
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