An MVP for Rheumatology
The Advancing Rheumatology Patient Care MVP was created by the ACR and is available through the RISE registry. Through this MVP, rheumatology providers can choose among 10 quality measures highly relevant to rheumatology, including measures specific to treating rheumatology patients and to ensuring the safety of patients who are taking drugs commonly used to treat rheumatic diseases. The MVP also focuses improvement activities on 10 options that have been vetted by rheumatology experts, rather than the 100+ available through traditional MIPS.
According to Dr. Harvey, the Advancing Rheumatology Patient Care MVP will be a significant step toward reducing the federal reporting burden for rheumatology providers. “The rheumatology-specific measures here go beyond rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and even gout. So, in this system, we can track quality of care for many more of our patients and their diagnoses,” he explains. “Let me do what I do every day, and the data we already collect as part of routine practice will flow directly to meet the measures. This idea is behind how we built the MVP.”
Dr. Harvey concludes, “I believe the MVP is a positive step that continues us on a journey away from fee-for-service and toward a far more robust pay-for-performance system. It’s not the final step, but it’s an important intermediate step.”
Allison Plitman, MPA, is the communications specialist for the ACR’s RISE Registry.
