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  • MIPS Manual 2017—2017 ACI Transition Measures

    By Rebecca Hancock, Flora Lum, MD, Chris McDonagh, Cherie McNett, Jessica Peterson, MD, MPH, and Sue Vicchrilli, COT, OCS
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    This content was excerpted from EyeNet’s MIPS Manual 2017.

    Your CEHRT determines which measures set you can report. If your EHR system is a 2014-certified CEHRT, you must select the 2017 ACI transition measures set. If your EHR system is a 2015-certified CEHRT, you can choose to report either the 2017 ACI transition measures set or the ACI measures set. (MIPS tip. The Academy recommends that you report the 2017 ACI transition measures, which will be easier to achieve than reporting the ACI measures.)

    There are 11 2017 ACI transition measures:

    • 4 measures are mandatory—all 4 must be reported for the base score and 2 of them also contribute to the performance score
    • 7 measures are optional—5 of these contribute to the performance score; 2 can be used to earn the registry bonus

    Base Score Measures

    Measure Required or Optional? Reporting Requirement
    Security Risk Analysis Required Yes/No Statement*
    e-Prescribing Required Numerator/Denominator†
    Provide Patient Access Required Numerator/Denominator†
    Health Information Exchange Required Numerator/Denominator†
    All or nothing. If you successfully report all 4 measures, your base score contributes 50% to your overall ACI score. If you fall short, even by just 1 measure, your base score is 0% and your ACI score is 0%.

    Performance Score Measures

    Measure Required or Optional? Contribution to ACI Score Reporting Requirements
    Provide Patient Access Required Up to 20% Numerator/
    Denominator‡
    Health Information Exchange Required Up to 20% Numerator/
    Denominator‡
    Patient-Specific Education Optional Up to 10% Numerator/
    Denominator‡
    View, Download, or Transmit (VDT) Optional Up to 10% Numerator/
    Denominator‡
    Secure Messaging Optional Up to 10% Numerator/
    Denominator‡
    Medication Reconciliation Optional Up to 10% Numerator/
    Denominator‡
    Immunization Registry Reporting Optional 0% or 10% Yes/No Statement*

    Registry Bonus Measures

    Measure Required or Optional? Contribution to ACI Score Reporting Requirements
    Syndromic Surveillance Reporting Optional 0% or 5% Yes/No Statement*
    Specialized Registry Reporting Optional 0% or 5% Yes/No Statement*

    Only need to report 1 measure for the bonus. Reporting 1 of these 2 measures earns you the full 5% bonus.

    Use the IRIS Registry. Integrating your EHR system with the IRIS Registry will satisfy the Specialized Registry Reporting measure.

    How the measures contribute to your ACI score. First, you must successfully report all the base measures. If you do, your ACI score = base score (50%) + performance score (0%-90%) + registry measure bonus (0% or 5%) + CEHRT for improvement activities bonus (0% or 10%).

    Note: Your ACI score is capped at 100%, and it contributes up to 25 points to your MIPS final score (e.g., an ACI score of 80% contributes 20 points to your MIPS final score).

    *To successfully report a “Yes/No” measure, attest (“Yes”) that you performed the activities that the measure requires. If you attest “No,” you fail the measure. Make sure you document the activities that you performed.

    ꝉTo successfully report numerator/denominator measures for the base score, you need a numerator of at least 1.  For the e-Prescribing measure, for example, the denominator is the number of prescriptions written for drugs during the performance period and the numerator is the number of those prescriptions that were 1) generated, 2) queried for a drug formulary, and 3) transmitted using a CEHRT. For the base score, you need a numerator of at least 1 and you get no extra credit for a numerator that is more than 1.

    ‡When reporting numerator/denominator measures for the performance score, your score will depend on your performance rate. For example, suppose you report the Patient-Specific Education measure. The denominator for that measure is the number of unique patients seen during the performance period. The numerator is the number of those patients (or their authorized representatives) who were given electronic access to patient-specific education based on clinically relevant information identified from your CEHRT. If the numerator was 200 and the denominator was 600, then your performance rate is 33.33% (200/600). This measure can contribute up to 10% to your ACI score. Scoring is decile based, and a score of 31-40% would contribute 4% to your ACI score.

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    Next: Download an at-a-glance PDF of the 2017 ACI transition measures (plus measure descriptions) or read about the ACI measures set

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