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TESTIMONIALS


“Your ability to demonstrate the quality of care you deliver will be increasingly important as healthcare transformation continues. Quality Markers™ is an affordable resource that identifies needed wellness and chronic care opportunities, improving not only quality and efficiency, but enhancing the overall patient experience.”

Carol L. Henwood, DO, FACOFP dist.
Royersford, Pennsylvania

“The best service that ACOFP can provide to its members in the coming years is to help them transform their practices into Medical Homes. Quality Markers™ helps make that a reality.” 

Kevin V. de Regnier, DO, FACOFP dist.
Winterset, Iowa
“I was challenged by an insurance company, using its claims data, that I had BMIs on only 38% of my patients. I quickly pulled my Quality Markers™ report to show that I had BMIs on 98% of my patients. Now the insurance company uses my practice as a model for other physicians.” 

Robert C. DeLuca, DO, FACOFP dist.
Eastland, Texas
UTILIZE ACOFP'S QUALITY MARKERS™ 7.0 OUTCOMES ANALYTICS PLATFORM TO TRACK & IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOMES
ACCESS patient outcomes data locked in your EMR

ANALYZE your patient outcome data with Quality Markers' intuitive graphs & charts to track your quality trends

REPORT annual patient outcomes to CMS and avoid non-reporting penalties (using the registry included with your annual subscription)

Satisfy CMS Medicare Part B requirements and avoid non-reporting penalties using Quality Markers 7.0. Quality Markers is associated with a CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registry for reporting.

WHY IS THE CMS QUALIFIED CLINICAL DATA REGISTRY (QCDR) IMPORTANT TO FAMILY PHYSICANS? 
QCDR is an outcomes registry which relies on every Family Physician reporting their outcomes on select patient performance metrics. Improvements in patient populations with chronic illness (such as diabetes, CHD, COPD and asthma) and well-care programs (such as annual vaccine compliance and screening programs) will provide the impetus for improvements in healthcare, reduction in resource utilization, and stabilization of payment rates.


HOW DOES QUALITY MARKERS™ HELP ME MEET QUALITY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS & AVOID THE NON-REPORTING PENALTIES?
 Quality Markers™ extracts meaningful data stored in your EMR. Quality Markers™ analyzes the data on 19 “suites” of care vs national benchmarks of performance.

You can uncover upward or downward trends in your patient population. Improve the average Ha1c for those diabetic patients 65 years or older. Focus on one disease set, i.e. hypertension, for 2017 and report for a month, 90 days, or one year to gain neutral to positive incentive payments. This is the "Pick Your Pace" Quality Reporting Program (QPP) that CMS has chosen for 2017.
 
Control your outcomes with Quality Markers.™ Now that you are able to view your outcomes via easy-to-read graphics and snapshots of your patients, you can put into place clinical and patient education programs to improve outcomes. Search all patients who are diabetic and have not visited your practice for current Ha1c testing. Quality Markers™ tracks and shows you valuable data about your population and patients so you can adjust for optimal patient care.

Upon initiation of Quality Markers™ you will be able to see two years of back data so that you can identify trends in treatment and outcomes. This helps you see where you are and identify where you want to be for 2017.

Unlike EMR’s, Quality Markers can create a list of all patients who are non-compliant with specific measures. This allows you to reach out to select patients who are pulling your quality score down. Once these patients are identified, you can put a treatment plan together to improve their test scores, schedule an annual wellness visit, etc. This is the way to gain incentives, rather than penalties. In 2017, penalties will be up to negative 4%, and incentives range from plus 4%-12%.


PUT YOUR PATIENTS FIRST WITH QUALITY MARKERS™
 High quality care and judicious use of resources can lead to lower cost of care. Quality Markers™ can help you track your patients’ therapy goals, compliance, and test results on a daily basis to ensure that you are helping each patient be as healthy as possible. Reductions in hospitalizations, visits to the Emergency Department, and urgent care centers may be achieved by being able to measure and analyze patient progress and outcomes using Quality Markers™. 


CERTIFICATIONS
  • Quality Markers™ is associated with a CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) which is required for reporting in 2017. The reporting fee is included in the annual subscription price.

  • Quality Markers™ is HIPPA compliant.

  • Quality Markers™ can be used for credit under Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA) for 2017 for the "Population Health" category. (See 2017 Payment Ready Resource Kit for more information).

  • Using Quality Markers™ earns Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) providers 10 auto-credit points towards recognition.




Please complete the subscription agreement and return to qualitymarkers@acofp.org or FAX to 847.228.9755.

MORE INFORMATION
 Contact ACOFP today about subscribing to Quality Markers™.  Email debbies@acofp.org or call 847.952.5523. Schedule a 20 - 30 minute live demonstration to learn more.