We have learned that for 15 or fewer doctors you must have
Quality measures 50%
Improvement activities 50%
Quality: 365 days
iA - any consecutive 90 days
What are some improvement activities that meet the guidelines ?
What are the list of quality measures that you all recommend ?
This is a later response, and Dr. Freedman expertly answered your questions, but I thought I would add my 0.02. I downloaded the entire list of IA (improvement activities) and there are many that you are probably doing already. Dr. Freedman listed the ones APMA culled out of the CMS list......You have to attest to only ONE for a 90 day period.
For quality measures, you have to report 6......the reporting period is the entire year. If you are reporting via registry, or anything else other than the CLAIMS method, you have to report on EVERY patient (not just Medicare patients). If you report via CLAIMS method (that is, putting in codes in your claims....) then you only have to report on standard red-white-blue MEDICARE patients.
Another note, Medicare has a PODIATRY SET of quality measures. If you choose to report on their 6 measures, and you report them via claims, then you only have to report on TWO of them, since the other four in the podiatry set CANNOT be reported by claims method (and since you choose to report via claims, you'd be exempt from the other 4).