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 reg-ent@entnet.org to reach a member of the Reg-ent Team.
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
Lisa Ishii, MD, MHS
Carol Lewis, MD, MPH
Melissa Pynnonen, MD
Lauren Zaretsky, MD
Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH
Cecelia Schmalbach, MD
William Blythe, MD
Jennifer Shin, MD, SM
Brian Nussenbaum, MD
Reg-ent Notable Accomplishments
- CMS QR and QCDR designations
- Qualified Registry and Qualified Clinical Data Registry status in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020
- Quality reporting
- PQRS in 2016
- MIPS reporting 2017, 2018 and 2019
- Specialty-specific quality measures
- Clinical Advisory Committees
- Establishment and growth of the registry
- Partnership with OM1 established
- Academic site engagement participation
- Engagement with academic medical centers: Over 15 sites visited and two new centers joined
- 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
