Submitted Electronically via www.regulations.gov
The Honorable Mehmet Oz
Administrator
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Attention: CMS-1832-P
Mail Stop C4-26-05
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21244-1850
RE: Physician Clinical Registry Coalition’s Comments on the Proposed 2026 Updates to the Quality Payment Program (CMS-1832-P)
Dear Administrator Oz:
The undersigned members of the Physician Clinical Registry Coalition (the “Coalition”) appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (“CMS’s”) proposed rule on updates to the Quality Payment Program (“QPP”) for calendar year 2026 (the “Proposed Rule”).1 The Coalition is a group of medical society-sponsored clinical data registries that collect and analyze clinical outcomes data to identify best practices and improve patient care. We are committed to advocating for policies that encourage and enable the development of clinical data registries and enhance their ability to improve quality of care and promote the health and well-being of Americans through the analysis and reporting of clinical indications, treatments, and outcomes.
Clinician-led clinical data registries are uniquely positioned to advance the healthcare system’s transformation toward value-based care. Their infrastructure enables timely and actionable feedback to providers, as well as sophisticated data aggregation and benchmarking analyses in support of a wide range of scientific, clinical, and policy objectives. By using registry data to benchmark provider performance against peers, registries can help identify variation in care delivery, which can highlight opportunities for improvement or reveal best practices to emulate. These registries generate real-world evidence critical to evaluating the cost-effectiveness of treatments and informing whether services are reasonable and necessary.
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