With just a few weeks to go of the 2023 MIPS performance year, your priority as a clinician will soon switch from reporting to submitting. HCIS wants to make sure you are prepared to submit for MIPS; the following checklist items will provide you with a great start to your submission process.
- Check Your Current Eligibility for the 2023 Performance Year
- Check your preliminary eligibility status by entering your National Provider Identifier (NPI) in the QPP Participation Status Tool.
- OR
- Sign in to the QPP website to check the eligibility status for all groups you’re associated with and the connected clinicians in your practice.
- Final eligibility is now available (as of December 2023).
- Select a Reporting Option
- Original Reporting Option
- Traditional MIPS: The clinician/group reports in the Quality, IA, and PI categories. CMS calculates the Cost category.
- Newest Reporting Option
- MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs): Registration closed Nov 30, 2023 – Includes a subset of measures and activities that are related to a given specialty or medical condition. There are 12 MVPs available to report for the 2023 performance year.
- For the 2023 performance year, you can choose to report an MVP in addition to traditional MIPS and CMS will take the highest score you receive.
- Original Reporting Option
- Choose a Participation Option
- Individual: Collect and submit data for an individual MIPS eligible clinician.
- Group: Collect and submit data for all clinicians in the group.
- Virtual Group: Collect and submit data for all clinicians in a CMS-approved virtual group (traditional MIPS only).
- APM Entity: Collect and submit data for MIPS eligible clinicians identified as participating in the MIPS APM.
- Subgroup: Only available to clinicians reporting a MIPS Value Pathway. Advance registration is required.
- Select Quality Measures
- Traditional MIPS: 6 Quality measures (or a complete Specialty measure set)
- MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs): 4 Quality Measures within the MVP
- Make sure selected Quality measures are available for PY23
- 11 quality measures have been fully removed
- 2 Quality measures have been partially removed
- Select Improvement Activities
- Traditional MIPS: 2 high-weighted or 4 medium-weighted activities Improvement Activities
- MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs): 1 high-weighted or 2 medium-weighted Improvement Activities within the MVP
- Determine whether you will submit data for Promoting Interoperability
- Small practices and certain provider types qualify for automatic re-weighting of the PI performance category
- Large practices can apply for MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception
- Deadline to apply is Jan 2, 2024 at 8pm
- EHR must be certified to the 2015 Edition Cures Update certification criteria
- Security Risk Assessment (SRA) and High Priority SAFER guide must be completed by 12/31/2023
- Must report full PI measure set for both Tradition MIPS and MVPs Must submit active engagement level for Public Health and Clinical Data Exchange measures
- Option 1 – Pre-Production and Validation
- Option 2 – Validated Data Production
With a complete checklist, you should be ready to begin your submission at the start of 2024. For more information on PY23, MIPS, MVPs and more, you can check out HCIS’ blog page.