MACRA:MIPS/APM Initiatives
+/- 4-9% Revenue
Patient engagement has a direct correlation to outcomes performance. Engaged patients have far better outcomes and at a lower cost.
Mend can help with MACRA/MIPS initiatives in the following areas: assessments, telehealth, secure messaging, patient education, patient generated health data, and much more.
Mend helps with the following MACRA:MIPS/APM initiatives, Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) and so much more:
Improvement Activities (15%)
- Offer Telehealth
- Complete Depression screening – telepsychiatry
- Use of certified EHR to capture patient reported outcomes
- Monitor unhealthy alcohol use
- Evaluate Tobacco use
- Assess the patient experience of care through surveys, advisory councils and/or other mechanisms.
- Provide 24/7 access to eligible clinicians or groups who have real-time access to patient’s medical record
- Leadership engagement in regular guidance and demonstrated commitment to implementing changes for improvement
- Integration of patient coaching practices between visits
- Improved telemedicine services, practices over platforms that digitally engages patients pre-visit
- Improved practices that disseminate appropriate self-management materials
- Implementation of practices/processes for developing regular individual care plans
- Implementation of medication management practice improvements
- And many other initiatives within this factor
Quality Performance (60% in 2017 / 50% in 2018)
- Care Plans
- Assessments
- Follow Ups
- And many other high value and other options
Advancing Care Information (25%)
- Patient-Generated Health Data
- Secure Messaging
- View, Download, and Transmit (VDT)
- Patient-Specific Education
- Request/Accept Summary of Care
- Send a Summary of Care
- Provide Patient Access
- Clinical Information Reconciliation
Resource Use / Costs (10% in 2018)
- CMS monitors via claims data
- Mend is the perfect telemedicine solution to reduce overhead costs and add new revenue to the practice