Problem: Excessive costs to achieve compliance with MACRA

Goal: Meet MACRA objectives with a tiered transition effort that minimizes your organization's outlay of resources

Solution: Identify sources of free headcount relevant to QCDR related MACRA components

• Compile a targeted action item list for the individual MACRA components relevant to QCDRs

• Identify outsourcing resources that expedite MACRA-QCDR efforts

  • Inventory of vetted Open Source projects that address MACRA components

    • Ongoing Open Source support provided by Government agencies, healthcare institutions and Universities.

  • Associate each MACRA component with external ongoing Open Source project(s) 

To investigate Open Source support of MACRA components:

• Receive hyperlinks to HIT Open Source sites by joining our MACRA-QCDR Open Source users group HERE

• As coverage of MACRA related open source content is expanded, you will receive timely notification via email.

MACRA objective: Integrate multi-state Public Health reporting systems

Problem: Fragmentation - Each state has a different support model(s) for Public Health reporting

Goal: Unify the interface for Public Health Reporting for QCDRs, EHRs, providers, state agencies, and CMS

Solution: Create a MACRA compliant Multi-state Public Health Reporting Toolkit

• Establish a tiered development model to align with MACRA objectives and timelines

• Create an index for each state's reporting mechanism(s) for Public Health reporting

  • Indentify alignment of state regulations with MACRA

  • Assign regulatory groups with Public Health Reporting data access models

• Provide system that fulfills MACRA public reporting requirements.

  • Establish state & agency specific data mapping

  • Translate the protocols & interface(s) used by each state

MACRA transition: Descriptive to Prescriptive.

• Clinical relevance toolkit

  • Conversion from Administrative (HEDIS) to Clinical quality tools (EHR)

• De-fragmentation processes

• Individual alignment of MACRA components with resource allocation priorities

• Using vetted HIT Open Source to expedite development

Future MACRA component support processes will be added to this web site.

For future reference, bookmark this page.  Revisit this site for updates.

Send a request for coverage of a particular MACRA component HERE

Receive timely notifications by joining our MACRA-QCDR support group HERE