Quality Payment Program: Feds Offer Telehealth-Related eCQM Update

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Article Overview

This article explains CMS updates to telehealth-related electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) within the Quality Payment Program. It is relevant to clinicians, eligible professionals, hospitals, and quality reporting teams that follow MIPS, Advanced APMs, CPC+, PCF, and Medicaid Promoting Interoperability guidance. The piece highlights the scope of the telehealth-related measure lists for performance years 2020 and 2021, along with CMS’s general reminder to review coding policies and reporting applicability for those measures.

Why This Topic Matters

Organizations that report quality measures need to know when CMS updates telehealth-related eCQMs and how those updates affect reporting options for different programs. This helps readers determine whether the article affects their quality reporting workflow for the referenced performance years.

What You Will Learn

  • How CMS frames eCQMs within the Quality Payment Program
  • Which reporting programs are associated with eCQMs
  • How telehealth-related updates affect the 2020 and 2021 guidance
  • What kinds of stakeholders need to review telehealth-related quality measure guidance

Who Should Read This

  • Eligible professionals
  • Eligible clinicians
  • Eligible hospitals
  • Critical access hospitals
  • Quality reporting staff
  • Coders and billing teams supporting quality reporting
  • Healthcare compliance teams

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