If you have not done so already, you may submit your 2017 MIPS data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) starting today. Log in to your RISE dashboard, click on all the MIPS categories you would like to report through RISE, and then click on the Submit button. The deadline to submit…
RISE Readiness for MIPS in 2018
In 2018, all providers will have to submit an entire year’s worth of their quality measure data to the CMS. After 2017, the transition year, the requirements and performance thresholds begin to increase. The CMS is still heavily incentivizing participation in a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), such as the RISE registry, for reporting in…
Virtual Groups: Another Option for Reporting MIPS Participation through RISE
RISE now has three means of reporting through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): individual, group and the recently added virtual groups. According to the CMS, virtual groups allow individual MIPS-eligible clinicians or groups consisting of not more than 10 MIPS-eligible clinicians to join together and report as if they were a single entity. The…
RISE: What’s New for You in 2018?
Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) has been on a gradual incline toward requiring full participation by eligible providers. During its transition stage, reporting for the first year (2017) allowed providers the option to report as partial, full, minimum or not at all, with varying degrees of penalties and incentives across all three reporting components:…
RISE Data Use to Be Highlighted at 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
This year’s ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, which takes place Nov. 3–8 in San Diego, features several opportunities to learn more about the ACR’s Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry, and the data and tools it offers rheumatologists. For the first time, RISE data will be presented at the Annual Meeting by rheumatologists outside of the ACR’s…
Visit the New RISE Dashboard!
Current participants of the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry can now access the RISE dashboard and receive an estimated MIPS score for the 2017 performance year. (Note: This score is only an estimation and cannot guarantee the type of future payment adjustment; only CMS can determine penalties and bonuses.) If you are a current user,…
RISE Registry Report
The Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry is the ACR’s registry for quality improvement and reporting. Aggregated statistics and trends seen in the RISE Registry will be published monthly in The Rheumatologist. Visit www.RISEregistry.org to learn how you can use RISE to improve your patient care. As a Qualified Clinical Data Registry, RISE provides an…
RISE Summit Establishes Priorities, Direction for Registry
On Feb. 16, ACR leaders, insurers, pharmaceutical representatives, patients, patient advocacy representatives and more met in Scottsdale, Ariz. They came together for the first annual RISE Summit, aimed at setting strategic priorities and goals for the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry, the qualified clinical data registry developed by the ACR. The Rise of…
RISE Is Ready for MIPS
Implementation of the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) began Jan. 1. What does this mean for rheumatologists? It means you must pick the measures by which you will be evaluated and the pace at which you will begin reporting in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System or participating in an Advanced Alternative…