The Reg-ent Registry
The Reg-ent registry harnesses the power of data to guide the best ENT care. While Reg-ent’s main focus is towards quality improvement and patient outcomes, it also serves as the foundation for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting, measures development, research, and will contribute to members meeting Maintenance of Certification requirements. Whether you are a solo or group practitioner in private practice or if you are employed by a large academic medical system or health system, the Reg-ent registry has many benefits and services to offer.
Reg-ent Benefits the Practice of Otolaryngology by:
- Safeguarding the role of otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons in defining optimal care.
- Demonstrating the value of services provided by otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons in all iterations of future payment models and providing the opportunity for participation in future private payer quality programs.
- Serving as the first national data repository of otolaryngology specific data that can be mined for research and quality improvement purposes.
- Helping define and develop specialty-specific quality measures.
- Serving as a source of data for the development of AAO-HNSF Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Your Reg-ent Dashboard:
- Creates a visual representation of your data, providing benchmark comparison to peers within your practice and nationally
- Provides the tools to monitor your practice and the outcomes of your patients
- Streamlines reporting for all performance categories of MIPS, including Quality, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities
- Provides options to report on specialty sets for the MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs).
For additional information please email [email protected] to reach a member of the Reg-ent Team.
Reg-ent dashboard timeline for new/current practices:
The Reg-ent Executive Committee
The Reg-ent Executive Committee’s work has contributed to the core success of the AAO-HNS in its leadership role in the launch, development, and continued growth of the AAO-HNSF Reg-ent registry. Under the guidance of the Chair of the Reg-ent Executive Committee, the registry has grown to include over 2,100 clinicians and is expected to grow more dramatically as the Reg-ent registry enters phase II with the addition of private payers, Academic sites, and research opportunities.
Committee Roster:
James C. Denneny III, MD
Carol M. Lewis, MD
Lauren S. Zaretsky, MD
William R. Blythe, MD, FACS
Vikas Mehta, MD
Brian Nussenbaum, MD
Matthew Crowson, MD
Reg-ent Notable Accomplishments
- CMS QR and QCDR designations
- Qualified Registry and Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) status in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
- Beginning in 2021, maintained QCDR status only. Continues to be an active QCDR for the 2024 performance year.
- Collaborated with CMS to implement an MVP geared towards otolaryngology.
- Quality reporting
- PQRS in 2016
- MIPS reporting 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
- Specialty-specific quality measures
- Clinical Advisory Committees
- Establishment and growth of the registry
- Partnership with OM1 established
- Launch Reg-ent Research Data Studio
- Academic site engagement participation
- Engagement with academic medical centers: Over 15 sites visited and two new centers joined.
- Expanded Reg-ent participation to approximately 10 AMCs and continue to integration.
- EHR vendor successes
- First Epic sites sharing data: University of Mississippi and Charlotte ENT
- Epic App Orchard pilot; Allscripts Cloud API pilot; eClinicalWorks Cloud pilot – 2018
- Conclusion of the Epic App Orchard Pilot – 2019
- eClinicalWorks push sites sharing data – 2019
- Participation in the Physician Clinical Registry Coalition
- Advocacy
- Collaboration with other medical specialties
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