Author: Susan Rohwer

CMS to Apply MIPS Automatic Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy for the 2021 Performance Year in Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Posted on November 12, 2021 by In News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to provide relief where possible to clinicians responding to the 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE). We’re applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to ALL individually eligible MIPS eligible clinicians for the 2021 performance year (PY). …

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Now Available: 2021 CRP

Posted on September 08, 2021 by In QPP Quick Bits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces the availability of the 2021 Change Review Process (CRP) for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). The CRP provides eCQM users the opportunity to review and comment on draft changes to the eCQM specifications and supporting resources under consideration by the measure steward. The goal of the …

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2021 Performance Period MIPS Quality Measures Impacted by the Annual ICD-10 Coding Update

Posted on September 07, 2021 by In QPP Quick Bits
In the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Quality Payment Program Final Rule (85 FR 84898 through 84900), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) finalized the policy allowing for the review of quality measures for significant impacts due to International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) coding changes during the performance period. Performance for these quality measures …

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New APM Performance Pathway (APP) Resources Available

Posted on September 02, 2021 by In QPP Quick Bits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering additional resources around the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Performance Pathway, or the APP— a new reporting and scoring pathway for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who participate in MIPS APMs. The 2021 APM Performance Pathway (APP) Toolkit has been updated …

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