Note that the dates with the "~" symbol are not yet firmly established.


Dates Activities and Deliverables
November 15, 2017 - December 11, 2017 Clinigence EIDM account setup.  Clinigence will coordinate this with the ACO security officer.
November 15, 2017 - December 11, 2017 Clinigence completes DUA and user roll setups with the ACOs.  The ACO initiates this process either by updated the existing DUA or submitting a new one.  Related correspondence should be submitted to support@clinigence.com.
Chart Abstraction Timeline TBD List of orgs/locations/contacts/remote or onsite; Documentation supporting practice workflows for the measures; EMR training;
December 1, 2017 - December 15, 2017 Census templates distributed and updates received.
December 1, 2017 Data integrations requiring measure QA are completed. Measure QA begins.
~December 1, 2017 Clinigence answer feed data dictionary becomes available.  Note that this is dependent on finalization of the CMS import spec which is not completed as of November 17, 2017.
December 11, 2017 Customer Test and Training Registries made available. 
December 19-21, 2017 Clinigence ACO Registry train the trainer training.
December 31, 2017 All data integration testing and measure QA is completed.
~January 8, 2018 (CMS not yet firm on the date) Patient ranking files are scheduled to be available for download from the GPRO WI and through the ACO download site. This file will contain your ACO’s samples for reporting and can be used to prepare and assist in locating data on Medicare beneficiaries in your samples.
~January 8 - 17, 2018 Clinigence completes data extractions and loads.
~January 8 - 19, 2018 Clinigence ACO registry load and QA. Data elements include ACO census, CMS sample beneficiaries, CMS claims based data, and where applicable ACO data feeds.
~January 11, 2018 Clinigence ACO Registry end-user training.
January 17, 2018 - January 30, 2018 Clinigence GPRO Registry application is made available for use. Availability will vary by ACO based on data load timelines.
January 22, 2018 GPRO WI Opens (This is an FYI.  Registry users don't have to log into the GPRO WI.)
February 2, 2018 First test export of Clinigence ACO Registry and import to CMS WI. Clinigence will provide ACOs with data entry issues report.
February 16, 2018 Second test export of Clinigence ACO Registry and import to CMS WI. Clinigence will provide ACOs with data entry issues report.
March 2, 2018 Third test export of Clinigence ACO Registry and import to CMS WI. Clinigence will provide ACOs with data entry issues report.
March 2, 2018 - March 16, 2018 Clinigence will do final CMS WI submissions and provide CMS feedback reports and submission confirmation documents.
March 16, 2018 The GPRO WI closes on Friday, March 16, 2017, at 8 pm ET (7 pm CT, 6 pm MT, and 5 pm PT).  Note that CMS will sometimes open up the WI the following week for a short period in read-only mode so that organizations can download their reports.  Barring very last-minute submissions Clinigence will have already done these downloads prior to closing.
March 23, 2018 - March 30, 2018 Clinigence generates and delivers submission packets: Clinigence registry exports, CMS WI reports and exports, Anonymous ACO score comparisons.
April/May 2018 CMS will release the 2017 reporting results.