You have an additional 15 days to let CMS know how you feel about the direction of Medicare-related quality-reporting programs, such as the physician quality reporting system (PQRS) and electronic health record (EHR) reporting.
Specifically, CMS wants you to weigh in on the number of clinical quality measures (CQMs) each program requires you to report, how often you feel EHR systems must gain recertification and other granular points related to health IT-based reporting.
"The feedback will inform CMS and ONC [Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology] of elements that may need to be considered for future rules relating to the reporting of quality measures under CMS programs," states the request for information (RFI).
The RFI "is part of the effort of CMS to streamline/reduce EP, eligible hospital, CAH, and health IT developer burden."
In the RFI, CMS devotes a lot of space to the certification of CQMs and states that IT developers may gain the option to certify CQMs based on specialty tracks. That is, a vendor may develop a set of primary care-certified CQMs or specialty-certified CQMs.
CMS also wants to better understand "the burden" on the industry of testing and recertification.
Comments are due by midnight, Feb. 16. Access the RFI, which includes background information,
here.