Every year we sit on pins and needles awaiting CMS endorsement. We did our happy dance recently when we received word that we were again approved; we are a Qualified Clinical Data Registry for MIPS reporting year 2019.

Our registry will work seamlessly with CMS. Our registry will pull information from your electronic medical record and Outcomes Manager. You will easily validate your Improvement Activities. The registry will report both Quality and Improvement Activities via an Application Programming Interface to CMS. In other words, all the entities involved in reporting information all talk the same language so that you have very little manual work to participate and report.

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You are immediately set for success with our registry because we have a few important features that increase your chances for being rewarded for your care. Our registry includes a list of 19 MIPS Clinical Quality Measures. Because the options are more extensive than other registries, you have a much better chance of success. CMS will choose your top 6 quality measure scores. Physical and occupational therapists will need to report both quality and improvement activities. Our registry will submit for both of these categories. Our registry will also include a dashboard so that you will be able to monitor your reporting and ensure that you are meeting all requirements.

The health care world is going full throttle electronic. Software systems are being built to communicate and interact with each other. Your success will depend upon technology and automating some aspects of your day-to-day activities. For value based purchasing and quality payment programs, eOutcomes are front and center. In order to have the most accurate information about your patients and your clinical outcomes, you no longer have the luxury of time, data entry mistakes or lack of risk adjustment. You need to know at a glance your real-time performance. Future success depends on electronic outcomes. Now is the time to get your workflows in place so that you don’t have to worry about quality payment programs.  Data will be immediately captured and reported while you worry about more important things: your patients.

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Knoxville, TN – June 14, 2018 – Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. (FOTO) accepted an invitation by the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health to offer guidance on how Congress may assist the medical industry to create new policies to improve healthcare.  

FOTO provided to Congress detailed insights about pay-for-performance policies, using data from its Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures database of nearly 22 million patient assessments. Specifically, FOTO demonstrated the effectiveness of a value-based healthcare payment program using risk-adjusted performance measures, and provided results from a value-based payment pilot study using FOTO performance measures that resulted in a 12 percent cost savings.

The Congressional Ways and Means Committee hearing, chaired by Peter Roskam (R-IL), was the second in a series on Innovation in Health Care. The hearing focused on innovative practices and technology that physicians and other providers are implementing. The Committee is seeking ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system, improve healthcare delivery, encourage care providers to be accountable for outcomes, and innovate a payment system that emphasizes value-based care.

“Our national healthcare system is in need of a significant overhaul, and we are proud to contribute FOTO’s vast experience and lessons learned from our robust scientific methods, technology, database and innovative approaches to measure, report, and encourage value-driven care,” said Deanna Hayes, Director of Research at Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc.

FOTO’s ground breaking pay-for-performance model has been implemented by large payers in the U.S. Including Health Partners in Minnesota and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana.

About FOTO

Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. (FOTO) has been continuously improving solutions to efficiently measure and reliably report patient functional outcomes for the physical rehabilitation industry for 26 years. FOTO’s web-based measurement solutions are used by clinicians to determine fair and accurate risk-adjusted predictions of the expected improvement in patients’ functional ability.

More than 21 million patient assessments have been compiled in the FOTO database – one of the largest in North America. Visit www.FOTOinc.com for more information.

Media Contact:

 Barbara Llarena

Rocket Science (for FOTO)

barbara@rocketscience.com

(415) 464-8110 x217

mobile: (510) 693-0933

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