Targeted Review Deadline

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it has several “prevailing concerns” regarding the accuracy of the 2017 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scoring data that was used to set the 2019 MIPS payment adjustments.  According to CMS, the concerns at issue relate to problems in the scoring logic used by CMS to generate the MIPS final scores for 2017.  In light of these “prevailing concerns” and the identified errors, CMS went about the task of “addressing and correcting” the 2017 MIPS data.  As a result, on September 13, 2018, CMS posted to the CMS Quality Payment Program (“QPP”) website the CMS revisions to the 2017 MIPS final scores and their associated 2019 MIPS payment adjustments.
Continue Reading The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System’s Targeted Review Deadline is Upon Us: Physicians, Groups, and other Clinicians have until October 15, 2018 to Identify and Report Errors in the Calculation of their 2017 MIPS Final Scores