We are almost done with another year of MIPS, can you believe it? Before you set aside time to attest, take these two steps. Step 1: Test your HARP account At the beginning of 2019, CMS implemented the HARP website. This was formerly your EIDM account. If you had a previous EIDM account, you do [...]
If you participated in the MIPS 2017 program, there is a deadline rapidly approaching. I know it seems like there are so many deadlines that we all have to remember, but this one only applies to certain people. So, keep waiting to find out if you need to do anything in the upcoming weeks. The [...]
Recently The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced an overhaul to the Affordable Care Organization program. The overhaul would be specific to EHRs and risk-based payment models. My favorite proposed changes in this rule: Reduce administrative burden by streamlining quality measures that ACOs are required to report. Allow ACOs to provide incentive payments to [...]
MIPS FAQs There has been confusion about what counts towards the low-volume threshold. Does this included Medicare billings or Medicare allowed charges? Medicare allowed charges, which includes the 80% Medicare pays and the 20% covered by cost-sharing. What is the advantage of reporting as a group vs individual? The most important thing to know about [...]
CMS has released the 2019 Proposed Rule for the MIPS program. Let’s talk about some of the highlights below. Opt-In Option Starting in Year 3, clinicians or groups can opt to participate in MIPS if they meet or exceed one or two of the low-volume threshold criteria. This option is not available if the clinician [...]
I know what you probably think, “Great, another CMS website that I need to remember the login for so I can log in once a year.” Well, kind of. You will use this site to submit MIPS data or verify that that the MIPS data for your practice has been reported to CMS. You will [...]
MIPS has proven to be an extremely difficult and cost-burdening program for many practices across the nation, especially small practices. CMS has heard all of the suggestions submitted to make this program more small practice friendly by adding hardships, special statuses, reweighting of the categories and virtual groups. Hardship Exceptions: If a practice has insufficient [...]
I have received a ton of questions over the past few years regarding where FQHcs stand with the Quality Payment Program. The truth is, it is a bit confusing so let’s break down to how find out if you (or one of your providers) qualify for the Quality Payment Program. The first thing to note [...]
We’ve all been hearing about the 4th category in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) but many physicians and administrators haven’t given it much thought because it had no impact on the final MIPS score. Here’s a breakdown to prepare you for this year’s new Cost category. The cost category is 10% of a clinician’s [...]
3 Tips to Mastering MIPS Secure Messaging The secure messaging measure is a fairly new measure in the EHR Incentive Payment program and is the measure that seems to give clinicians the most trouble throughout the reporting year. Secure messaging is not required for the MIPS base score in 2018 but it is a measure [...]
