-In this video, I'm going to walk through a new role
we have just added for clinicians.
This role allows you to view your MIPS performance feedback
and payment adjustment information
for each organization you're associated to --
like practices, virtual groups, and APM entities --
without requesting access to each organization
and waiting for approval from a security official.
For practice association,
this role lets you access group and individual feedback
that applies to you,
but you can't see individual performance feedback
or payment adjustment information
for other clinicians in the practice.
You have to sign in to QPP to request the clinician role,
so you'll need to create a HARP account
if you've never signed into QPP before.
For more information on that process,
review the "Create a Quality Payment Program Account" video
on the QPP resource library.
To sign in from qpp.cms.gov, click the "Sign In"
in the upper right-hand corner of the site.
For the purposes of this demo, we are using a test environment
which does not require two-factor authentication.
However, when you sign in,
you'll be required to provide the code
from the two-factor authentication device
set up in HARP.
Once logged in, navigate to the "Manage Access"
on the left navigation.
From here, most clinicians will notice
that they're not connected to any organizations.
But you will see any organizations
you have already had access to.
Requesting the clinician role
will not change any existing permission
or access you have for an organization.
Click here to begin the process.
If there's an exact unique match between the name
on your HARP account and your name and eligibility,
as displayed on the QPP participation status lookup tool
will populate a list of the practice names
associated with you in the NPI lookup tool
at the time of the request.
We'll talk about what happens if we don't have
an exact unique match in a moment.
Please note that you will not see any virtual group
or APM entity association
when we're verifying who you are on this verification screen.
You will only see practices.
Also, if you're requesting a role in July of 2019,
you will only see practices that you've been billing claims
under as of September 30, 2018.
If you don't recognize the associations,
you'll click here to follow the same process
as clinicians we can't uniquely and exactly match by name.
If you do recognize the associations, click "Verify."
Once the request is processed,
you'll return to the Manage Access page
where you will see a list of the practices
you're associated with
and the roles you have for each practice.
Now I'm going to walk through the steps
that you will need to take in the event
that there isn't an exact unique match
between your name on the HARP account
and your name on the lookup tool.
So, the first step is to navigate to the "Manage Access"
on the left navigation panel,
and then click "Connect to another organization,"
where you'll be presented
with multiple organization types that you can choose from.
In order to receive the clinician role,
we want to click the "Individual Clinician" card
and click "Continue."
If there isn't an exact and unique match
between your name on the HARP account
and your name in the lookup tool,
we'll need you to provide some identifying information.
For example, we wouldn't have an exact match on the name
for a clinician who changed her name between enrolling in PCOS
and getting a HARP account.
We also may have an exact match on the name but it's not unique.
For example, the clinician's name in PCOS
and HARP might be John Smith,
but we may have more than one clinician listed
on the lookup tool with the name John Smith.
This same process applies to clinicians
who don't recognize the practice associations we populated
for them on the validation screen.
So, you'll be asked to provide your NPI, SSN, and PTAN.
Because NPIs are publicly available,
we ask for SSN to verify your identity for security purposes.
The information entered is validated against the data
that exists in PCOS.
If you work at multiple practices,
you can enter any PTAN assigned to you in PCOS.
Once you enter all three, you can click "Submit."
If we are unable to verify,
you will be presented with an error message.
With this error message, you can go in and edit
the information you previously entered,
or you can click the link that's provided,
as it will direct you to the footer
where you will be presented with helpful resources
that will allow you to contact the service center
if the error message persists even after editing your data.
If we can verify this combination of data,
the request will be approved
and you'll return to the Manage Access page
where you will see your connected practices.
You can see the success -- the approval message here
at the bottom of the screen.
And as we go down, you can see your newly added practice
and your newly acquired role as a clinician.