Dear Secretary Price,
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we are writing to urge the
Department of Health and Human Services to allow eligible clinicians
utilizing an electronic health record to participate in a qualified clinical data
registry to qualify them as fully achieving all points for the Advancing Care
Information category of the Quality Payment Program’s Merit Based
Incentive Payment System. We are advancing this change because:
- Compliance with the current ACI requirements represent significant burden on physician practices.
- There is limited evidence demonstrating that the ACI requirements have a positive impact on the quality of care and patient outcomes, and demonstrating their relevance to physicians, practices and patients.
- Physicians will be incentivized to adopt electronic health records and participate in clinical data registries, facilitating a culture of performance improvement that benefits patient care and patient outcomes.
- This enables the physician and specialty-led performance measurement that Congress intended with passage of Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
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