SIR is recommending that CMS raise the cap on reporting measures contained in a single Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) and allow physicians to report across multiple QCDRs to measure quality. SIR believes this would incentivize a “team-based” approach to patient care and allow specialties like interventional radiology, which treat an array of conditions all over the body, to use a number of registries.
“To drive the best quality of care, physicians should be allowed to measure themselves against metrics specific to the procedures they’re performing,” said Ray. “However, practitioners are currently limited to reporting through a single QCDR and that registry is capped to only 30 quality measures.”
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SIR will launch its IR Registry in late 2016 within the American College of Radiology’s National Radiology Data Registry (NRDR). CMS’s restrictions around QCDRs will make it difficult to cover the scope of interventional care in one registry.
“Given the breadth and variety of practice within interventional radiology, our members need a sufficiently wide variety of measures from which to choose in order to meaningfully and accurately report on their performance,” Ray said. “This flexibility of defining measures in a QCDR is complementary to the annual call for MIPS measures and would increase the likelihood that interventional radiologists would be able to report on quality measures meaningful to the Medicare patient population they treat.”
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About the Society of Interventional Radiology
The Society of Interventional Radiology is a nonprofit, professional medical society representing more than 6,100 practicing interventional radiology physicians, scientists and clinical associates, dedicated to improving patient care through the limitless potential of image-guided therapies. SIR’s members work in a variety of settings and at different professional levels—from medical students and residents to university faculty and private practice physicians. Visit sirweb.org.
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