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Improving Clinical Care
Compass Program

Overview

Compass Program: Charting Your Course to Excellence for Medicare Star, ACO, and P4P (MAP) Measures

Provider organizations are challenged with multiple priorities on a daily basis - they strive to provide high-quality, patient-centered care at a low-cost, while also trying to make sense of and address the numerous quality measures to which they are held accountable. The Compass Program is a comprehensive and intensive program focused on making changes in fundamental processes to improve performance on three sets of measures in 2012/2013:

  • Medicare Star ratings,
  • ACO Quality Metrics (Medicare Shared Savings Program / ACO), and
  • P4P for commercial populations.

Critically, the Compass Program will prioritize among the measure sets to focus on those that:

  • are included in more than one set; and
  • provide an opportunity to manage cost and quality together.

It is designed for provider organizations with an existing registry that:

  • want to strengthen their approaches to reporting and member / physician outreach; OR
  • routinely conduct member outreach and want to build infrastructure to prepare for primary care practice site redesign

The collaborative will run for 14 months with four in-person learning sessions and webinars on related content. CQC support will include leading the learning sessions, offering training for key topics, and coaching calls with CQC staff. The first in-person session will be scheduled for the week of April 23rd in the LA area. Pre-work and 1:1 calls will take place prior to the first session to prepare groups.

Program fees will be based on organization membership as follows:

  • Under 30,000 enrollees: $5,000*
  • 30,000+ enrollees: $10,000*

* You may select to pay 100% of the program fee upfront OR 50% in April 2012 and 50% in January 2013.

To learn more about the program, join us for an informational webinar on February 16th from 10-11am - register here

Benefits

  1. Receive assistance in prioritizing Medicare Stars, ACO/MSSP, and P4P measures and selecting interventions/changes to achieve improved performance in 2012/2013
  2. Access to resources, tools and practical strategies from CQC and other CA physician groups working in this area
  3. Receive one-on-one coaching and technical assistance from CQC and other consultants throughout the project
  4. Facilitation of relationships with health plans to support data exchange, identification of common priorities, and coordinating interventions with plans
  5. Updates on changes in measure sets mentioned above, particularly Medicare Stars, and a crosswalk across these major measure sets
  6. Support developing a measurement plan to evaluate your organization's progress
  7. Reinforce role of provider organization quality improvement departments in managing cost performance while improving quality scores

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