As we come to the end of the 2017 Advancing Care Information (ACI) Public Health and Specialized Registry Reporting period, it is important to plan for 2018.
Please note: an update to the registry offering made available through the NextGen Healthcare relationship with Premier, Inc. (previously named CECity). Effective January 1, 2018, The American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) will sunset three registries:
- Colorectal Cancer
- Hepatitis C
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
If you are currently enrolled in one of these registries, this change does not affect your 2017 ACI active engagement. However, to avoid a service interruption that could have an impact on your 2018 active engagement status, we recommend you transition to the American College of Physicians (ACP) Genesis Registry to help you fulfill the 2018 criteria. The ACP Genesis Registry contains many of the same quality measures as the AGA registries and the same great features and benefits including performance measure scoring, benchmarking, and quality improvement.
To make the switch to the ACP Genesis Registry, please contact your NextGen Healthcare account manager before December 31, 2017.
NextGen Healthcare reports to these registries when encounters lock. Encounters that lock after December 31, 2017—even if all the care was rendered in 2017—will not be submitted to these registries. This is not a NextGen Healthcare policy decision: These registries will no longer be connected to Premier following after December 31, so there will be nowhere for a submission to go.
In addition, you will not be billed automatically for 2018 if you are currently enrolled in one of the AGA registries. We have worked with our billing department to ensure that this is not an auto-renewal process on your statement in 2018.