Medicare Part B clinicians billing more than $90,000 a year OR providing care for more than 200 Medicare patients a year OR provide more than 200 covered professional services under the Physician Fee Schedule.
Clinicians or groups can opt-in to MIPS again in 2020, if they meet or exceed at least one of the low-volume threshold criteria.
For individual clinicians and groups could make an election to opt-in or voluntarily report MIPS via the Quality Payment Program portal by logging into their account and simply selecting either the option to opt-in (positive, neutral, or negative MIPS adjustment) or to remain excluded and voluntarily report (no MIPS adjustment). Once the clinician or group elects to opt-in to MIPS, the decision is irrevocable and cannot be changed for the applicable performance period. Clinicians who do not decide to opt-in to MIPS would remain excluded and may choose to voluntarily report. Such clinicians would not receive a MIPS payment adjustment factor.
MIPS determination period includes two, 12-month segments for the 2020 performance period. The first 12-month segment is from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019 including a 30-day claims run out. The second 12-month segment is from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020, doesn’t include a 30-day claims run out.
Quality measures should be reported for 12-month calendar year performance period. Cost category should be reported for 12-month calendar year performance period. Promoting Interoperability and Improvement activities measures should be reported for 90 days minimum performance period.
The MIPS is based on the FFS model with a direct tie to quality performance. You earn a payment adjustment based on evidence-based and practice-specific quality data. You show you provided high quality, efficient care supported by technology by sending in information in the following categories.
MIPS consolidates 3 existing reporting systems—the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Value-based Payment Modifier (VBM) and the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (also known as "Meaningful Use")—into a single program for performance assessment. MIPS is comprised of four Performance Categories that make up a composite performance score (CPS) of a possible 100 points. The MIPS Score, also known as Composite Performance Score (CPS) will be calculated from data reported by practices under the four performance categories to CMS.
CATEGORY | PREVIOUSLY CALLED AS |
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Quality | Replaces PQRS |
Promoting Interoperability (PI) | Replaces Meaningful use (Medicare EHR Incentive Program) |
Improvement Activities (IA) | - |
Cost | Replaces Value-Based Modifier |
Based on their performance in these four categories, physicians and eligible providers will receive a payment adjustment. The payment adjustment for the performance year 2020 will be capped at +/- 9 percent in 2022.
Final Score = (Quality Score*Quality Weight) + (PI Score*PI Weight) + (IA Score*IA Weight) + (Cost Score*Cost Weight)*100
FINAL SCORE | PAYMENT ADJUSTMENT |
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85.00 – 100.00 points | Positive Adjustment and Eligible for Performance Bonus |
45.01 - 84.99 points | Positive Adjustment and NOT Eligible for Performance Bonus |
45.00 points | Neutral Payment Adjustment |
11.26 – 44.99 points | Negative payment adjustment (greater than -9% and less than 0%) |
0 – 11.25 points | Negative Payment Adjustment of -9% |
An individual is defined as a single clinician, identified by their individual National Provider Identifier (NPI) tied to a single Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). If you report only as an individual, you'll report measures and activities for the practice(s)/TIN(s) under which you are MIPS-eligible and be assessed across all 4 performance categories at the individual level. Your payment adjustment will be based on your Final Score derived from the 4 MIPS performance categories.
A group is defined as a single TIN with 2 or more clinicians (at least one clinician within the group must be MIPS eligible) as identified by their NPI, who have reassigned their Medicare billing rights to a single TIN.
If you report only as a group, you must meet the definition of a group at all times during the performance period and aggregate the group’s performance data across the 4 MIPS performance categories for a single TIN. Each MIPS-eligible clinician in the group will receive the same payment adjustment based on the group's performance across all 4 MIPS performance categories.
MIPS-eligible clinicians can report data as an individual and as part of a group under the same TIN. In this instance, the clinician will be evaluated across all 4 MIPS performance categories on their individual performance and on the group’s performance, with a final score calculated for each evaluation. The clinician will receive a payment adjustment based on the higher of the two scores.