CMS slow-rolls QPP/MIPS progress, with eye toward electronic reporting

Why This Topic Matters

Providers and ACOs need to understand how CMS is evolving quality reporting, especially as the agency encourages more electronic, all-patient, and pathway-based reporting. The article highlights policy shifts that can affect reporting strategy, measure selection, operational burden, and future readiness.

Article Sections

1. Quality Payment Program

   Overview of CMS changes affecting QPP and MIPS reporting, including ACO-related reporting pathways and the broader direction of quality measurement policy.

2. 5-year plan for full eCQM

   Discussion of CMS’s longer-term movement toward electronic quality reporting and the timeline concerns associated with that transition.

3. eCQM or dCQM?

   Coverage of the relationship between electronic quality measures and digital quality measures, including external roadmap efforts and stakeholder concerns.

4. MVP PDQ or DOA?

   Status update on the MIPS Value Pathways approach and commentary on its pace of implementation and future outlook.

5. Basics: Mostly status quo

   Summary of the core MIPS reporting framework for the current year, including performance categories, measure updates, and related scoring changes.