A new resource for AMP Incentive Design Technical Documentation for MY 2024, provide feedback on prelim MY 2024 data file layouts, register for the program updates webinar, and coming soon, winners of the 2023 Medicare Advantage Awards.
Now available: AMP Incentive Design Technical Documentation for MY 2024 and beyond
AMP’s new incentive design for MY 2024 is focused on industry-wide quality goals to move California forward. The AMP Incentive Design Technical Documentation provides methodological details on how the new design works to reward providers for their improvement and achievement on high-priority measures. AMP participants are encouraged to download and review this resource, which is now available on iha.org.
Provide feedback on the MY 2024 Audited Submission Data File Layouts
Each year, IHA releases a set of standard data file layouts for self-reporting provider organizations (POs) and health plans to submit audited quality results to FinThrive Healthcare, Inc. We invite you to review and provide feedback on the preliminary MY 2024 data file layouts, available now on iha.org.
Email amp@ncqa.org with any feedback by Monday, January 27.
Last chance to register: MY 2024 program updates webinar
Join us to learn about the MY 2024 AMP reporting cycle! The webinar will highlight key changes coming in MY 2024 with the AMP redesign, including the focused AMP measure set and new incentive design, as well as important deadlines for data collection and reporting. Register below.
Is your organization’s contact information up-to-date with IHA? In the coming months, users who previously had an AMP Analytics Portal account but have not created a PCON platform account will be removed from our AMP contacts list.
New users must be added as contacts for your organization to access any information on the PCON platform or receive the monthly AMP newsletters and other program updates and communications.
Note: Your organization’s primary contact is responsible for managing access including updating contacts on behalf of your organization. If you are the primary contact at your organization, please review the contacts listed in the PCON platform. To add, edit, or remove contacts, please fill out the Contacts Change Request Form.
Looking for more help? Watch our step-by-step tutorial video for updating your PCON platform contacts or email us at amp@iha.org.
in the pipeline
Health Plans: MY 2024 AMP Contract Roster Release
The Participation Confirmation (PCON) period closes at the end of January 2025 for MY 2024! Thank you for working with IHA to update and confirm PO and health plan contracts, organizational profiles, and more within the new PCON platform. IHA will release the final MY 2024 AMP Contracts Roster to health plans and our data partners via email on February 3rd. Please use this MY 2024 AMP Contracts Roster for your Onpoint, FinThrive, and Cozeva data submissions for 2025.
Health Plans: Upcoming Update to MY 2025 Data Submission Guide (DSG) 9.1
IHA is updating MY 2025 DSG 9.0 to DSG 9.1 to align with the latest Common Data Layout (CDL) version 4.0 that was released in January 2025. The updated version will also respond to miscellaneous stakeholder feedback. The draft DSG 9.1 will be shared with health plans by February 11th for a two-week review period, allowing health plans to review the changes and provide feedback, concerns, and/or questions before the final DSG 9.1 version is released on the IHA website at the end of February. Stay tuned for further communication from IHA on release of DSG 9.1.
AMP MY 2023 Medicare Advantage Awards
IHA’s AMP Medicare Advantage program uses standard measurement to promote healthcare quality in Medicare Advantage, providing participating POs with aggregated performance data to understand how they’re performing compared to the market and their peers.
We are excited to recognize high performing and most improved POs in the coming weeks! Award winners will be notified by February 21, and we’ll announce awards winners on March 6 via IHA.org.
HEDIS® Public Comment
The HEDIS® Public Comment Period will take place February 13 to March 14. Along with our partners at NCQA, we invite AMP participants to comment on new measures, changes to existing measures, and proposed measure retirements for HEDIS® MY 2026. Please visit NCQA.org for more information and to submit comments starting February 13.
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