Physician anesthesiologists and their practices are finding that reporting quality data to ASA’s Quality Registry and Qualified Clinical Data Registry through Quality Concierge is more than just meeting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ requirements under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and MACRA.
Submitting data through Quality Concierge of the Anesthesia Quality Institute’s (AQI’s) National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR) is helping anesthesiologists to benchmark patient outcomes, identify areas for local quality improvement, and demonstrate quality and value metrics for contracting.
At Tacoma Anesthesia Associates and Anesthesia West PC in Omaha, Nebraska, making the decision to collect and report data through Quality Concierge was made with a goal to improve quality and patient care.
AQI collaborated with ePreop (Seal Beach, California) to offer Quality Concierge to practices with limited data systems and administrative and IT support to successfully submit data to NACOR. Quality Concierge assists with measure selection, reporting...