Beaumont Medical Group Implements Full-Service Wellcentive Solution for PQRS Group Practice Reporting Option

ATLANTA, Sept. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Wellcentive, the pioneer and leader in pay-for-performance and quality reporting for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), announced today that Beaumont Medical Group (BMG) has implemented its PQRS Enterprise Solution for improving clinical and financial outcomes. The solution will enable the medical group to satisfy the requirements of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' group practice reporting option (GPRO) and earn positive payment adjustments under CMS' value-based payment program.

The Beaumont Medical Group, consisting of employed physicians of Beaumont Health System, is based in Royal Oak, Michigan, with more than 553 primary care physicians, specialists and hospitalists. BMG will use the Wellcentive solution not only to automate reporting but also to proactively track performance on quality measures throughout the year. In addition, a dedicated Wellcentive PQRS consultant will help the medical group navigate recent PQRS program changes and ensure the success of its quality program year round.

"By adopting an enterprise, full-service approach to PQRS reporting, Beaumont is preparing itself well for the future of federally-mandated outcomes reporting," said Tom Zajac, Wellcentive's CEO. "The government is ramping up its value-based reimbursement efforts, and providers can no longer afford to limit themselves to barebones quality reporting. Success will require a proactive approach to analyzing data, defining the best opportunities for improving both quality and revenue and tracking outcomes. This is exactly the model Beaumont is implementing and will be the standard for any large medical group."

As part of the implementation, Wellcentive aggregated clinical and administrative data from the medical group's Epic Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) application and other information systems. That data is now available to BMG and to Wellcentive's data sciences team to identify opportunities for improvement and to pinpoint the PQRS GPRO measures with the potential to yield the highest reimbursement to the organization.

"We had a full appreciation of the paradigm shift we were about to experience as a GPRO participant—particularly with the addition of the value-based payment modifier—so we wanted to have an outside expert  to guide us throughout the reporting process," said Wendy Chandler, R.N., BSN, MSN, director of Quality & Patient Safety, Beaumont Medical Group. "The Wellcentive team is helping us benchmark throughout the year so that we can make adjustments to our workflow and improve our performance well before the reporting deadline."

Chosen in 2007 to work with CMS to test registry submission, Wellcentive is a charter and founding member of the CMS Registry Initiative, originally known as PQRI. The company has helped tens of thousands of primary care and specialty care providers successfully participate with the PQRI and PQRS programs.

"So far we've received a phenomenal level of service from Wellcentive," Chandler added. "They are incredibly responsive. It's clear to me that Wellcentive is working to help us be as successful as possible." 

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