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Regulatory Environment: Other Regulations
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HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Clinical Perspective)
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Role-Based Content (OPTIONAL) - Physicians / Nurse Practitioners / Physician Assistants / Clinical Executives / Clinical Managers / Public Health Professionals
This module is optional, but has additional topics that you may be interested based on your role. We encourage you to explore any of these topics and there are also quizzes to test your learning.
与讲师见面
Rita KukafkaAssociate Professor
Biomedical Informatics
Welcome to Value-Based Care, Regulatory Environment.
This is lecture c.
In this lecture, we will discuss other key pieces of legislation,
the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health or
HITECH Act, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act or
MACRA, and the Physician Quality Reporting System.
The objectives for this lecture, other regulations are to describe
the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or
HITECH Act, describe the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act or
MACRA, and describe the Physician Quality Reporting System, PQRS.
Strategies for improving the healthcare delivery system emphasize increased
coordination across providers and the continuum of care,
including transfer of information about patients across these providers.
The availability of clinical decision support tools, so
that clinicians can make informed decisions on behalf of their patients, and
payment approaches that incentivize providers to improve the quality of
care and produce good health outcomes.
The glue or mechanism for delivery system redesign is the availability and
use of health information technology or HIT.
HIT can improve the flow of information.
However, for a long time, the United States was behind other
countries in adopting HIT within the delivery system.
For example, in this chart produced by the Commonwealth Fund,
in 2006, only 28% of US primary care physicians had electronic medical records
To address the slow pace of adoption of health information technology, Congress
passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, or
HITECH Act, as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The act authorized the spending of nearly $44.7 billion to support providers
becoming meaningful users of electronic health records specifically,
and health information technology more broadly.
Qualifying physicians and institutions received incentives not just for
purchasing HIT systems and EMRs, but
also by demonstrating that they were using the systems in a meaningful way.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services developed the regulations
governing requirements for meaningful use.
Using EHR in a meaningful way means that the technology is being used in
the manner for which it was intended, such as e-prescribing, the electronic
exchange of health information and to submit quality measures.
Goals for meaningful use are to improve quality, engage patients in their
healthcare, improve care coordination and to improve population health,
while maintaining the privacy and security of the patient's information.
The HITECH Act has been successful at speeding the adoption of information
technology in hospitals.
This study by Julia Adler-Milstein and her colleagues using data from
the American Hospital Association charts the growth in electronic health
record adoption among general acute care hospitals in the US.
The researchers found that 75% of hospitals had at least a basic
system in 2014, up from 59% in 2013.
In 2014, 34% of hospitals had comprehensive
systems compared to 25% of hospitals in 2013.
Despite this progress, small and
rural hospitals were less likely to have at least a basic system.
Among hospitals that did not meet the threshold for
having a basic EHR, most had adopted some functionality with about
75% of this group with eight or more basic EHR functions in place.
The requirements for
receiving incentives were designed to become more stringent over time in stages.
For instance, the percentage of patients for
whom e-prescribing was used increased in stage two compared to stage one.
And stage two also required hospitals to develop systems to exchange
clinical information using a certified EHR in order to receive monthly payments.
By 2014, 76% of hospitals reported being able to
exchange information with providers outside the system,
an improvement from 41% in 2008.
HITECH not only encouraged the adoption of electronic health records in hospitals,
but in physician offices as well.
By 2013, 78% of office-based physicians
reported adopting some type of EHR system with 48%,
having a basic system defined as having seven electronic capabilities.
Recording patient history and demographic information,
maintaining patient problem lists, recording clinical notes,
recording medication and allergy lists, viewing lab results,
viewing imaging reports and using computerized prescription ordering.
Despite the fairly rapid adoption of EHRs,
post-implementation of HITECH, only 39% of office-based physicians
reported having any health information exchange with other providers.
So in terms of promoting adoption of EHRs, HITECH was fairly successful, but
many of the changes leading to increased quality of care that were envisioned and
had begun, but were not yet widespread in 2015.
The Physician Quality Reporting System was started in 2006,
as part of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act.
Providers who participated in the program would transmit quality metrics for
their Medicare patients to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
As a result of the Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2015,
physicians' providers will now receive penalties if they do not satisfactorily
report their quality measures for Medicare Part B, physician component services.
Additional legislation, known by the acronym MACRA, increased the pressure to
focus not just on adoption of EHRs, but on using them to improve the quality of care.
Medicare fee for service reimbursement to doctors has long
been based on what is known as the sustainable growth rate formula or SGR.
The SGR formula sought to limit spending growth in the Medicare fee for service
model that rewarded physicians for the number and intensity of services provided.
It reduced fees paid to physicians, if overall physician spending
exceeded some target based on overall economic growth.
That is if physician expenditures, for a previous year, were greater than expected,
reimbursement to physicians, in the subsequent year, would be reduced.
A study published by the Commonwealth Fund described a number of
criticisms of the SGR including that it cuts fees for every service, and
for every provider under the Medicare fee schedule,
regardless of the provider's contribution to spending growth.
Lacks incentives for improving quality, fails to address volume and
intensity which are significant drivers of Medicare spending growth and
penalizes providers who do control their costs.
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act or MACRA,
authorized in 2015, is intended to not only reduce
uncertainty associated with physician payments, but
also to reduce the emphasis on volume based fee-for-service reimbursement.
Under MACRA, physician fees will increase by .5% until 2019,
and then will remain level through 2025.
MACRA also supports alternative payment models,
such as Accountable Care Organizations and Patient-Centered Medical Homes.
To encourage high quality performance among physicians,
the Merit-Based Incentive program or MIPS will be established in 2019.
MIPS consolidates and replaces three existing payment programs.
The physician quality reporting system that encourages practices to
report on the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries,
the EHR Incentive Program that we discussed in the previous slides, and
the physician value-based modifier that adjust payments based on performance.
Providers that participate in alternative payment models or,
example, Accountable Care Organizations or
Patient-Centered Medical Homes, can receive additional payments.
Or, if eligible, those in alternative payment arrangements can choose
to opt out of the MIPS, but they are required to use certified EHR technology.
MACRA creates four categories of measures that are weighted to create
an overall MIPS score.
These include quality, resource use,
clinical improvement activities and meaningful use of EHR technology.
Under MACRA, the previous incentive programs are changing from standalone
programs with often conflicting requirements to better aligned and
coordinated programs.
CMS is currently in the rule-making stage,
which will better define how the merit-based performance program will work.
This concludes lecture c on Regulatory Environment.
In this lecture, we discussed two additional pieces of legislation
that will have substantial impact on how care is provided.
The HITECH Act provided incentives to encourage the meaningful use of
electronic health records.
Since the Act's passage, the US has seen significant growth in
the use of EHRs in hospitals and in physicians' offices.
MACRA changes how physicians are reimbursed within Medicare.
The new reimbursement mechanism is intended to incentivize
doctors to improve the quality of care.
