On June 20th, CMS issued its proposed rule for year 2 of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) under Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015( MACRA). Comment period ends August 20.
Quality, cost and performance is measured by QPP through two optional paths: (1) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) consolidating meaningful use and other physician quality reporting programs and providing negative, neutral or positive payment adjustments to Medicare Part B payments or (2) participation in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (AAPMs) which offers bonuses and higher annual fee updates. Nonqualifying APM Clinicians may participate in a MIPS-APM with modified reporting requirements.
CMS’s Administrator Seema Verna stated, “ By proposing this rule, we aim to improve Medicare by helping doctors and clinicians concentrate on caring for their patients rather than filling out paperwork. CMS will continue to listen and take actionable steps towards alleviating burdens and improving health outcomes for all Americans that we serve.” The proposed changes are of particular benefit to small and rural practices and Medical Home and CPC+ models. CMS expects proposed low volume threshold and APM changes will increase clinicians exempt from MIPS evaluation from the 806,879 in 2017 to approximately 941,000 in 2018.
MIPS proposed changes:
In addition to changes under MIPS, CMS proposes changes to APMs and MIPS-APMS such as extending nominal risk levels through 2020, offering changes of particularly significant advantage to CPC+ and Medical Home Models, offering All-Payer combination options, providing an additional “snapshot” date for MIPS APM participation determination and permitting Virtual Group MIPS APMs to receive their MIPS payment adjustment based on the APM entity score.
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