In a recent Hayes Management Consulting blog, they explain the MACRA advancing care information category.
We are now six months into the implementation of MACRA and organizations have moved from the theoretical to reality when it comes to the law’s new requirements. The transition has put the CMS EHR incentive program – better known as Meaningful Use (MU) – in the rear-view mirror, replaced by the Advancing Care Information (ACI) component of the MIPS track of MACRA.
MU mandated that organizations meet minimum thresholds when it came to the use of EHR technology. ACI aims to take the integration of electronic records to the next level by focusing on performance, not just use. ACI expands MU to include MIPS eligible clinicians who were not previously eligible for incentive payments such as physician assistants, nurse practioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and hospital-based EP’s.
CMS has outlined several major goals in designing the requirements for ACI: