The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have set March 31st as the deadline for MIPS PY23 submissions. Now that we’re in mid-February, it’s vital that you and your practice are on top of these steps and are near completion with your submission. Here is a breakdown of where you should be by now:
These Steps Should be Completed by Now
Contact our support team if you are running behind.
- 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.
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- 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). https://qpp.cms.gov/
- Check your preliminary eligibility status by entering your National Provider Identifier (NPI) in the QPP Participation Status Tool.
- 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.
- Original Reporting Option
- Select Quality Measures
- Traditional MIPS: 6 Quality measures (or a complete Specialty measure set)
- Select Improvement Activities
- Traditional MIPS:
- Large practice-2 high-weighted or 4 medium-weighted activities Improvement Activities or 1 High weighted and 2 medium weighted
- Small Practice- 1 High weighted or 2 medium weighted
- Traditional MIPS:
If you haven’t yet completed these steps, you are behind where you should be. Please schedule a FREE 15-minute MIPS consultation here.
What Needs to be Completed.
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.
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
- 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 submit active engagement level for Public Health and Clinical Data Exchange measures
- Option 1 – Pre-Production and Validation
- Option 2 – Validated Data Production
While our suggested deadlines are subjective, we firmly believe that your practice will need time to spare with your submission, so these steps should be completed a couple of weeks before the March 31st deadline. HCIS is accepting new clients for PY23 MIPS submission until March 20th; please look at our Pricing & Services page.