Overview
Clinical practices that are small or located in rural or underserved areas often have fewer administrative resources to devote to regulatory compliance. Altarum created a resource and support center to make it effortless for such practices to comply with the CMS Quality Payment Program.
Our Approach
The cornerstone of our program is the Quality Payment Program Resource Center® website, which provides more than 26,000 clinicians across seven states in the Midwest with free, self-paced tools and resources to successfully navigate the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. We also provide direct education, guidance and support through a dedicated help desk. And using our proprietary tool MIPScast®, we help clinicians ensure they are reporting information accurately and achieving the highest possible Merit-based Incentive Payment System score for which they are eligible.
Results
In its first year of operation, Altarum’s QPP Resource Center reached all 26,548 clinicians in the region and engaged in two-way communication with more than 92 percent of them. Since its launch in July 2017, more than 1,600 provider practices have enrolled in the QPP Resource Center.
While the CMS QPP-SURS program formally ended on February 15, 2022, Altarum continues to produce a quarterly newsletter providing the latest QPP and MIPS information. To receive this newsletter, please contact Delivery Systems Transformation Quality Improvement Advisor Cheryl Budimir.
In addition, Altarum offers fee for services support Quality Improvement Advisory Service (QIAS). This service line works with providers to submit MIPS data, complete the Security Risk Analysis, and a host of other packages.
Contact Us
Carrie Frye
Client Services Manager, Delivery Systems Transformation
Areas of Expertise- Project Management
- Clinician-Based Quality Improvement Support
- Health IT Adoption
Carrie Frye has more than 11 years of experience in electronic health record (EHR) implementation and workflow redesign. In her current role, she leads Altarum’s quality improvement advisory services team across several projects, including the Healthy Hearts for Michigan program, an AHRQ-funded initiative to reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes in Michigan. Carrie has assisted hundreds of providers through quality improvement initiatives—beginning with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid—fund Promoting Interoperability program (formerly Meaningful Use)—which she had the pleasure of supporting from start to finish.