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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are under increasing pressure to improve performance, meet quality benchmarks, and optimize financial outcomes, all while managing data across disparate systems. Too often, the conversation centers on dashboards and reporting tools, yet overlooks a more fundamental capability: data acquisition.

The 2026 CMS Final Rule introduces one of the most comprehensive and consequential shifts in the evolution of value-based care. Rather than a routine update, this year’s rule signals a strategic realignment of the Medicare quality reporting ecosystem, one that expands mandatory participation, tightens reporting requirements, introduces new care models, and accelerates the transition to digital quality measurement. Healthcare organizations must respond with clarity and urgency

Most practices are already doing the work of value-based care (VBC); they’re just not getting paid for it. While clinical teams focus on care coordination, preventive screenings, and chronic disease management, many of those services go unreimbursed because the infrastructure to track, report, and bill for them simply isn’t in place.

Identifying Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and applying HCC coding are critical steps for ACOs aiming to improve care quality and manage costs. This blog highlights how these data tools help uncover patient risks, guide interventions, and drive better health outcomes.

ReportingMD’s TOM™ platform helps healthcare practices turn population health insights into action. By unifying data, identifying emerging risks, and providing real-time dashboards, TOM™ enables smarter care, better outcomes, and greater revenue. It’s not just reporting—it’s performance execution in a value-based world.

ReportingMD’s TOM™ platform helps healthcare practices turn population health insights into action. By unifying data, identifying emerging risks, and providing real-time dashboards, TOM™ enables smarter care, better outcomes, and greater revenue. It’s not just reporting—it’s performance execution in a value-based world.

In previous years, EHR vendors could submit clinical quality measures (CQMs) or electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) on behalf of their clients under the "Direct EHR Submission" pathway. However, starting with the 2025 performance year, CMS has eliminated that option. Now, only entities officially recognized as Qualified Registries (QRs) or Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) can submit MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) quality data to CMS.

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