Beginning with the 2021 Reporting Year, ACOs will have a new way to report data to CMS: The APM Performance Pathway, also known as the “APP”. While the 2021 CMS Final Rule frames 2021 as a transition year, in which Web Interface submission is still available alongside reporting via APP, beginning in 2022, the Web Interface option will no longer…
The 2021 Quality Payment Program Final Rule has been released! This is a typically governmental dense read, so if you prefer “cheat sheets,” there are some useful resources available which make comparisons and have tables conveying basic updates to be well prepared for the 2021 Quality Payment Program. In short, 2021 brings mostly what was expected with MIPS requirements being…
2019 MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Fact Sheet »
If you didn’t have the chance to read the Patient360 assessment of the Proposed Rule back in August, this is a handy place to review those tables and basic updates to expect in the 2020 Quality Payment Program. In short, if you don’t feel like toggling to the previous blog, it is pretty much what we expected and very manageable. There…
Please enjoy this special article from PartB News. Subscribers to PartB News may click here to read the whole newsletter. Perhaps the biggest news impacting your participation in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) doesn’t have to do with 2020 (PBN 8/12/19). The Pathways (MVP) version of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is slated to launch in 2021 and offers…
Since no one has time and likely very little inclination to read 808 pages of government documentation on an already burdensome MIPS program, Patient360 has you covered! The following few pages give you a down and dirty summary of what you need to know. While some positive aspects exist for 2020 (a.k.a., “Year 4”) QPP, there are also significant changes…