1. “2014 ACO GPRO Audit-What this means for your practice”
Sheree M Arnold
ACO Clinical Transformation Specialist

2. Agenda Catholic Medical Partners ACO overview
Attribution and sampling of patients
ACO quality measures

3. Catholic Medical Partners ACO Overview
3-year contract with Medicare for Medicare Shared Savings Program
Made up of providers who voluntarily agree to work together to coordinate care for patients while meeting certain quality standards to share in any savings they achieve for the Medicare program.
273 participating practices
860 primary and specialty providers (188 primary care physicians & 672 specialty care physicians)
The ACO has the following institutional providers: Catholic Health Hospitals, Mt. St. Mary’s Hospital and Health Centers, Bertrand Chaffee Hospital, Bry- Lin Behavioral Health System
Take care of a defined population of patients
Medicare FFS beneficiaries only
~25,400

4. ACO GPRO Attribution
CMS assigns a Medicare beneficiary to Shared Savings Program ACO based on current program rules
Beneficiaries are assigned to the Shared Savings Program ACO if they: Have at least one month of Part A and Part B enrollment
Do not have any months of Medicare group (private) health plan enrollment (i.e., Medicare Advantage)
Reside in the United States or U.S. territories and possessions
Have a primary care service with a provider at the ACO
Have the largest share of their primary care services (by Medicare allowed charges) provided by the participating ACO , defined as: Step (1): having more primary care services furnished by primary care physicians at the participating ACO than furnished by primary care physicians at any other entity; or
Step (2): (for those beneficiaries who have not received any primary care services from a primary care physician) having at least one primary care service furnished by specific types of physicians and had more primary care services furnished by professionals at the participating ACO than at any other entity (Participating Specialist)
Timing of attribution: Shared Savings Program ACO attribution: Use beneficiaries attributed for the rd quarter report
A patient attributed in one year of Shared Savings Program ACO may or may not be attributed to the ACO in the following reporting years
At the end of every program year, we are required my Medicare to report our quality as a part of GPRO. GPRO stands for: Group Practice Reporting Option. Our sucessfull reporting of these measures ensures that all participants receive credit for PQRS and allows for us to qualify to receive any shared savings based on our ability show quality while also saving money.

5. ACO GPRO Sampling
CMS analyzes Medicare claims submitted and captured in the Integrated Data Repository (IDR) from January 1, 2014 through October 31, 2014 (i.e., sampling period)
Patients are sampled using a methodology that increases the likelihood of patients being sampled into multiple modules
Assigned/Aligned beneficiaries who meet additional quality eligibility criteria may be sampled into GPRO Web Interface modules through a three-step process described in the following slides

6. Attribution and Sampling Overview
The GPRO Reporting requires ACOs to report data on a pre-determined population of patients
Beneficiaries are attributed to the ACO
Attributed beneficiaries are assessed for quality measurement eligibility and then randomly sampled based on measurement and disease criteria.
Sample is used for quality reporting

7. ACO Quality measures

8. ACO Quality Measures
Goal = 90th percentile

9. ACO Quality Measures cont.

10. CARE-1: Medication Reconciliation
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older discharged from any inpatient facility (e.g., hospital, skilled nursing facility, or rehabilitation facility) and seen within 30 days following discharge in the office by the physician providing on-going care who had a reconciliation of the discharge medications with the current medication list in the outpatient medical record documented
Guidance
This measure is reported for each discharge found for the patient
The practice may verify the discharge date if evidence of hospitalization or discharge is found in the record within 1-2 days of the pre-populated discharge date

11. CARE-2: Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who were screened for future fall risk at least once during the measurement period
Guidance
Screening for future fall risk must include: Documentation of no falls in the past year or only one fall without injury in the past year or documentation of two or more falls in the past year or any fall with injury in the past year

12. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Module
The Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Module contains one measure and one composite measure made up of five component measures: DM-2: Percentage of patients aged 18 through 75 years with diabetes who had most recent hemoglobin A1c greater than 9.0%
Optimal Diabetes Care (All or Nothing Scoring) DM-13: Diabetes Mellitus: High Blood Pressure Control
DM-14: Diabetes Mellitus: Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL-C) Control
DM-15: Diabetes Mellitus: Hemoglobin A1c Control (< 8%)
DM-16: Diabetes Mellitus: Daily Aspirin or Antiplatelet Medication Use for Patients with Diabetes and Ischemic Vascular Disease
DM-17: Diabetes Mellitus: Tobacco Non-Use

13. HF-6: Heart Failure: Beta-Blocker Therapy for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of heart failure (HF) with a current or prior left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 40% who were prescribed beta-blocker therapy either within a 12 month period when seen in the outpatient setting OR at each hospital discharge
Guidance
If the patient has ever had an LVEF < 40% or a documented LVEF as moderate or severe answer “Yes” to the presence of LVSD
Bisoprolol, carvedilol, or sustained release metoprolol succinate are the ONLY beta-blockers allowed for this measure

14. PREV-5: Breast Cancer Screening
Measure Description
Percentage of women 50 through 74 years of age who had a mammogram to screen for breast cancer within 27 months
Guidance
Screening includes breast imaging, breast x-ray, diagnostic mammography, digital mammography, mammogram, screening mammography

15. PREV-6: Colorectal Cancer Screening
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 50 through 75 years who received the appropriate colorectal cancer screening
Guidance
FOBT includes ColoCARE, Coloscreen, EZ Detect, Fecal occult blood test, flushable reagent pads, flushable reagent stool blood test, guaiac smear test, Hemoccult, Seracult, stool occult blood test, FIT
Colorectal screening does not include: virtual colonoscopy, Barium enema, or Colovantage
Patient refusal is not a reason to exclude

16. PREV-9: Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow-Up
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a documented BMI during the encounter or during the previous six months AND when the BMI is outside of normal parameters, a follow-up plan is documented during the encounter or during the previous six months of the encounter
Normal Parameters: Age 65 years and older BMI ≥ 23 and < 30
Age 18 – 64 years BMI ≥ 18.5 and < 25
Guidance
Follow-up may include, but is not limited to: documentation of education, referral (such as, a registered dietician, nutritionist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, primary care provider, exercise physiologist, mental health professional, or surgeon), pharmacological interventions or dietary supplements, exercise counseling or nutrition counseling
Follow-up plan is not required for normal BMI

17. PREV-11: Screening for High Blood Pressure and Follow-Up Documented
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older seen during the measurement period who were screened for high blood pressure AND a recommended follow-up plan is documented based on the current blood pressure reading as indicated
Guidance
Patients with a Medicare claim indicating a history of hypertension prior to the first day of the measurement period (1/1/2014) will not be included in your sample for this measure
A normal blood pressure reading (<120 systolic and < 80 diastolic) requires no documentation of follow-up
Recommended follow-up based on BP classification includes: recommending screening interval follow-up, lifestyle modifications, referrals to alternative/primary care provider, anti-hypertensive pharmacological therapy, laboratory tests, or an electrocardiogram
Need to link the recommended follow-up to the elevated blood pressure using guidance provided

18. PREV-12: Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Clinical Depression and Follow-Up Plan
Measure Description
Percentage of patients aged 12 years and older screened for clinical depression on the date of the encounter using an age appropriate standardized depression screening tool AND if positive, a follow-up plan is documented on the date of the positive screen
Guidance
Screening includes completion of a clinical or diagnostic tool used to identify people at risk of developing or having a certain disease or condition even in the absence of symptoms
This measure requires the screening to be completed in the office of the provider filing the code
Follow-up plan may include a proposed outline of treatment to be conducted as a result of positive clinical depression screening
Use a normalized and validated depression screening tool developed for the patient population where it is being utilized. Examples of depression screening tools include but are not limited to: Adolescent Screening Tools (12-17 years)
Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A), Beck Depression Inventory-Primary Care Version (BDI-PC), Mood Feeling Questionnaire, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and PRIME MD-PHQ-2

19. What’s next… GPRO starting! January-March 2015
Keep eye out for charts reviews
Weekly Q&A Conference line-March2015
Questions? Please contact Sheree Arnold (716) or David Nielsen (716)
For those of you on the line that were not able to sign into a computer, these slides will be posted on the website under Providers, ACO Learning Series. Next Month presentation will be focusing on the Annual wellness visit and we will be able to gain insights on what the plans are looking for in the visit and also some ideas on how to operationalize this in practices. Thanks again and have a wonderful rest of the day!