MCMP ( Medicare Care Management Performance)

Its been a while since I've posted a blog. It hasn't been for not wanting or yearning to do so, since my last blog posting I've moved and things have finally settled down to the point where I can now strart blogging again.

Anyway, I wanted to say for all practices that are a part of the MCMP program there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and this can be done in an automated fashion from your Electronic Health Record application.

On October 13, 2006 the CMS Administrator Mark B. McClellan spoke about a new demonstration program being implemented in 2007 in the following states: Arkansas, California, Massachusetts and Utah.

The program is a "pay-for-performance" demonstration requiring eligible practices to send 26 quality measures to CMS involving patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and preventive care.

To find out more information about the quality measures please refer to the url listed below:
Quality Measures

This is a three year program starting in 2007, and would reimburse physicians in smaller medical practices with financial incentives ranging from $10,000/physician to a max of $50,000/practice per year for three years.

For the first year each practice is required to send CMS baseline data of the 26 quality measures mentioned above, and I was able to develop a program to extract this data from G.E. Centricity EMR application, and allow easy import into the MCMP application provided by CMS.
As it turns out the practice I did this for was the only one in the state of Massachusetts to do so within the CMS deadline. Please note this would not have been accomplished without a lot of help from G.E. tech support and the practice's EMR application expert who made the mapping of the fields easy.

For more information about the program, please feel free to post questions, or refer to the url below: Medicare Demonstrations