MIPS

Selecting Advance Care Planning and Implementation of Fall Screening and Assessment Programs as your improvement activities coordinates with hitting Quality Measure 47: Advanced Care Planning, Quality Measure 155: Developing Fall Plan of Care and Quality Measure 130: Review Medications.

You need a total of 40 Improvement points. By completing 2 High Weight Activities, you can complete the requirement. If you are a small practice, practice in a rural area or practice in a health professional shortage area, you receive double points for each activity and only need to complete 1 High Weight Activity. Some High Weight Activities that Podiatrists can use include: CDC Training on CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, Completion of CDC Training on Antibiotic Stewardship, Provide 24/7 Access to Eligible Clinicians or Groups who have Real-Time Access to Patient’s Medical Record and Provide Education Opportunities for New Clinicians.

There are four different methods to submit your data to Registry Clearinghouse; manual entry, spreadsheets, submit through billing company or directly through EHR. These four methods are detailed.

For 2024, there are 11 new measures and 9 measures that have been retired.

What is new and what is happening for MIPS 2024?

A number of proposed changes were finalized, and some were not finalized.

REGCLR7 - Use of Ankle Foot Orthotics to Improve Patient Function

REGCLR3 Bunion Outcome – Adult and Adolescent

They are stating that these exemptions are Automatic.  But what does that really mean?

For the 2020 performance period, CMS is using the Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances policy to allow clinicians, groups, and virtual groups to submit an application requesting reweighting of one or more MIPS performance categories due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As an additional flexibility, CMS has extended the deadline to submit a COVID-19 related 2020 extreme and uncontrollable circumstances application to February 1, 2021.