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– The AASM Sleep Clinical Data Registry named Sleep CDR will assist medical staff in streamlining meaningful data collection and reporting to help drive high-quality care in sleep medicine.
– Approved as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Sleep CDR will facilitate participation in national quality reporting programs such as the Merit-based Incentive Payment System administered by CMS.
– In addition, it will streamline the AASM accreditation process, allowing sleep centers to set and track performance goals and pull reports to meet the quality assurance standard when applying for reaccreditation.
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Citing rushed implementation, unanswered questions and potential negative consequences to patient care, 11 healthcare organizations are calling on the Biden administration to delay and make changes to mandated quality measure reporting for accountable care organizations.
The healthcare organizations, including the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra asking for a delay or other options.
The ACO Coalition has sent a separate letter to Becerra citing its concerns.
The concern regards changes to quality reporting for the Medicare Shared Savings Program published in the Final 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule.
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